Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 2,684 stores from 1,797 grocery & convenience chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Publix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of New Grand Mart 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
1,797
Tracked stores
2,684
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 New Grand Mart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Publix logo Publix - +12.4%
2 N New Grand Mart logo New Grand Mart - +12.2%
3 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - +8.5%
4 F Fresh World - +8.5%
5 S Streets Market logo Streets Market - +8.3%
6 M MOM's Organic Market logo MOM's Organic Market - +6.9%
7 C Costco logo Costco - +4.8%
8 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +4.6%
9 M Martin's Super Markets logo Martin's Super Markets - +4.5%
10 H H Mart logo H Mart - +4.5%
11 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +2.9%
12 W Wegmans logo Wegmans ▲1 +2.9%
13 A Americana Grocery ▲1 +2.6%
14 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +2.3%
15 L Lotte Plaza Market logo Lotte Plaza Market - +2.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,684 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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