Trends · data through September 2026

Supermarkets in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 1,326 stores from 229 supermarkets in North Carolina. The Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Farm Fresh and Publix.

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
229
Tracked stores
1,326
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked supermarkets

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 Farm Fresh sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Market - +19.2%
2 F Farm Fresh logo Farm Fresh ▲1 +12.8%
3 P Publix logo Publix - +3.9%
4 S Shop 'n Save logo Shop 'n Save - +2.4%
5 I Ingles - +1.0%
6 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +0.3%
7 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +0.1%
8 I IGA logo IGA ▲1 -1.1%
9 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly - -2.4%
10 S Super G Mart logo Super G Mart - -2.4%
11 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods - -3.5%
12 W Wow Supermarket - -4.5%
13 V Village Market ▼1 -5.3%
14 C Carlie C's IGA logo Carlie C's IGA - -5.7%
15 F Fred's Food Club ▲1 -6.2%
  • Food Lion
  • Harris Teeter
  • Publix
  • Lowes Foods
  • Ingles
  • Carlie C's IGA
  • Piggly Wiggly
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,326 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Food Lion (535)
  • Harris Teeter (186)
  • Publix (60)
  • Lowes Foods (82)
  • Ingles (77)
  • Carlie C's IGA (29)
  • Piggly Wiggly (53)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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