Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 5,046 stores from 3,299 grocery & convenience chains in North Carolina. The Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The New York Butcher Shoppe and BJ's Wholesale Club.

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
3,299
Tracked stores
5,046
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience chains

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. The Market and The New York Butcher Shoppe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Market ▲2 +19.3%
2 T The New York Butcher Shoppe logo The New York Butcher Shoppe ▲2 +17.5%
3 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - +16.0%
4 M Midway Mart ▲5 +14.9%
5 U US Foods CHEF'STORE logo US Foods CHEF'STORE ▲1 +13.5%
6 B Buy & Go ▲1 +8.1%
7 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot - +7.7%
8 C Cashion's Quik Stop ▲1 +7.6%
9 K Kingsway ▲2 +6.3%
10 T Tropicana Supermarket ▲5 +5.6%
11 M Mecklenburg County ABC Store logo Mecklenburg County ABC Store - +5.1%
12 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - +4.4%
13 P Publix logo Publix - +4.0%
14 T The Pop Shoppe ▼1 +3.8%
15 S SAV•MOR Foods ▲1 +2.5%

Store footprint

Store map

5,046 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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