Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Alabama

Iceflower tracks 2,212 stores from 1,547 grocery & convenience chains in Alabama. Allen's Food Mart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Honey Baked Ham Company and Trader Joe's.

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
1,547
Tracked stores
2,212
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. Allen's Food Mart and The Honey Baked Ham Company sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Allen's Food Mart ▲2 +19.5%
2 The Honey Baked Ham Company ▲2 +16.6%
3 Trader Joe's - +15.4%
4 Sprouts Farmers Market ▲1 +12.0%
5 Price Less IGA - +9.8%
6 Sam's Club - +9.0%
7 ALDI - +7.9%
8 Al's Liquor Tobacco Wine ▲2 +4.9%
9 Publix - +4.6%
10 ABC Select Spirits ▲1 +4.5%
11 One Stop ▲1 +3.8%
12 ABC Beverages - +3.4%
13 Costco - +1.8%
14 Whole Foods Market - +0.6%
15 Save A Lot - +0.4%

Store footprint

Store map

2,212 tracked store locations in Alabama, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 347 of the 2,212 stores (16%); 1,421 of the 1,547 tracked chains have a single store here. 21% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 14% across the United States.

Top tracked chains by store count

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