Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 539 stores from 264 grocery & convenience chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Trader Joe's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Compare Foods and Total Wine & More.

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
264
Tracked stores
539
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. Trader Joe's and Compare Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲2 +16.3%
2 C Compare Foods logo Compare Foods - +14.8%
3 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - +14.2%
4 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club ▲1 +5.6%
5 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +4.7%
6 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market ▲1 +3.9%
7 R Refuel logo Refuel - +3.0%
8 P Publix logo Publix - +2.9%
9 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +2.4%
10 W Wegmans logo Wegmans - +2.0%
11 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +0.2%
12 A ALDI logo ALDI ▼1 -0.7%
13 W Wake County ABC logo Wake County ABC - -2.3%
14 C Carlie C's IGA logo Carlie C's IGA ▼1 -2.5%
15 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club ▼1 -4.3%

Store footprint

Store map

539 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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