Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 2,026 stores from 724 grocery stores chains in North Carolina. Tropicana Supermarket grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Save A Lot and Sprouts Farmers Market.

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
724
Tracked stores
2,026
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. Tropicana Supermarket and Save A Lot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tropicana Supermarket - +17.3%
2 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot ▲3 +16.7%
3 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market - +15.0%
4 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket ▲1 +11.0%
5 T The Spice & Tea Exchange logo The Spice & Tea Exchange ▲1 +8.9%
6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +6.3%
7 C Compare Foods logo Compare Foods - +5.9%
8 S Sav-Mor Foods ▲1 +5.3%
9 R Run In - +4.4%
10 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +3.7%
11 S Super G Mart logo Super G Mart - +3.5%
12 C Carlie C's IGA logo Carlie C's IGA - +2.2%
13 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly - +1.7%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI - +1.1%
15 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +1.1%
  • Food Lion
  • Harris Teeter
  • Lowes Foods
  • Publix
  • ALDI
  • Ingles
  • Trader Joe's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,026 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Food Lion (528)
  • Harris Teeter (184)
  • Lowes Foods (83)
  • Publix (60)
  • ALDI (79)
  • Ingles (73)
  • Trader Joe's (13)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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