Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 613 stores from 410 grocery & convenience chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Publix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costco and Sam's 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
410
Tracked stores
613
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. Publix and Costco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Publix logo Publix ▲2 +18.3%
2 C Costco logo Costco - +4.3%
3 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +3.1%
4 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - -0.1%
5 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲1 -0.7%
6 W Wegmans logo Wegmans - -2.2%
7 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -2.4%
8 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - -2.6%
9 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - -3.4%
10 C Compare Foods logo Compare Foods - -5.3%
11 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market - -5.9%
12 C Carlie C's IGA logo Carlie C's IGA - -6.7%
13 A ALDI logo ALDI ▼1 -8.0%
14 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company - -8.6%
15 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▼2 -10.9%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

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