Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Iceflower tracks 730 stores from 421 grocery & convenience chains in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. Trader Joe's 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
421
Tracked stores
730
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 Costco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +14.1%
2 C Costco logo Costco - +3.6%
3 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +1.5%
4 T Tinee Giant - -0.9%
5 F Farm Fresh logo Farm Fresh - -3.1%
6 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - -3.3%
7 S Stop & Go - -5.2%
8 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - -5.7%
9 C Coast Guard Exchange logo Coast Guard Exchange - -7.1%
10 V Virginia ABC logo Virginia ABC - -7.9%
11 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market - -8.3%
12 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - -8.4%
13 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - -8.5%
14 H Happy Shopper - -9.1%
15 A ALDI logo ALDI - -12.0%

Store footprint

Store map

730 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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