Trends · data through September 2026

Discount Grocers in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 143 stores from 8 discount grocers in North Carolina. SAV•MOR Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Lidl.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
8
Tracked stores
143
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount grocers

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. SAV•MOR Foods and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S SAV•MOR Foods - +9.2%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +0.8%
3 L Lidl logo Lidl - -4.6%
4 F Food King logo Food King - -7.6%
5 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot - -13.6%
  • ALDI
  • Lidl
  • SAV•MOR Foods
  • Dollar General Market
  • Save A Lot
  • United Grocery Outlet
  • Food King
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

143 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • ALDI (97)
  • Lidl (26)
  • SAV•MOR Foods (7)
  • Dollar General Market (2)
  • Save A Lot (5)
  • United Grocery Outlet (2)
  • Food King (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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