Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Virginia

Iceflower tracks 3,929 stores from 2,401 grocery & convenience chains in Virginia. Publix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Country Corner 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
2,401
Tracked stores
3,929
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 Country Corner sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Publix logo Publix - +9.8%
2 C Country Corner ▲1 +4.5%
3 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +3.9%
4 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲1 +3.6%
5 F Fresh World - +3.4%
6 T Tinee Giant - +2.6%
7 L Lotte Plaza Market logo Lotte Plaza Market ▲3 +2.2%
8 C Costco logo Costco - +2.0%
9 F Farm Fresh logo Farm Fresh ▲1 +0.4%
10 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market ▲1 -0.1%
11 T The Spice & Tea Exchange logo The Spice & Tea Exchange - -0.2%
12 H H Mart logo H Mart - -1.3%
13 E Earth Fare logo Earth Fare - -1.5%
14 F Food City logo Food City - -2.2%
15 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - -2.5%

Store footprint

Store map

3,929 tracked store locations in Virginia, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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