Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 149 stores from 97 grocery & convenience chains in Asheville, NC. Energy Mart Stores grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sav-Mor Foods and Whole Foods Market.

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
97
Tracked stores
149
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. Energy Mart Stores and Sav-Mor Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Energy Mart Stores - +5.7%
2 S Sav-Mor Foods - +1.8%
3 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +0.7%
4 P Publix logo Publix - +0.5%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI - -0.1%
6 I Ingles - -3.1%
7 H Hot Spot logo Hot Spot - -4.1%
8 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market - -19.1%

Store footprint

Store map

149 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 I Ingles 29
  • 2 H Hot Spot logo Hot Spot 4
  • 3 A ALDI logo ALDI 4
  • 4 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 3
  • 5 P Publix logo Publix 3
  • 6 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market 3
  • 7 E Energy Mart Stores 3
  • 8 S Sav-Mor Foods 3
  • 9 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 2
  • 10 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 2
  • 11 A Asheville ABC Liquor Store 2
  • 12 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 2
  • 13 O One Stop logo One Stop 2
  • 14 F Fairview Grocery 2
  • 15 S Stop N Go 2
  • 16 C Circle K logo Circle K 2
  • 17 G Griffin's Grocery 1
  • 18 M Montford Convenience 1
  • 19 K Kim's Oriental Food & Gifts 1
  • 20 G Gossett Grocery 1
  • 21 B Blue Ridge Market 1
  • 22 F French Broad Community 1
  • 23 M Mountain Fresh Orchard 1
  • 24 C Crossroads Grocery 1
  • 25 H Hendersonville ABC Store 1
  • 26 T Trout Lily Market 1
  • 27 M Marshall Quick Stop 1
  • 28 T The Spot 1
  • 29 T Tiger Mart 1
  • 30 C Crate Wine Market and Project 1
  • 31 M Maggie B's Wine & Specialty Store 1
  • 32 C Corner Pantry 1
  • 33 M Mars Hill Tobacco and Vape 1
  • 34 M Montreat General Store 1
  • 35 E Enter the Earth 1
  • 36 C City Market logo City Market 1
  • 37 A Ash Pantry 1
  • 38 O Oakley Food Center 1
  • 39 C Citi Stop 1
  • 40 T Tobacco Road Burley & Brew 1
  • 41 W Wolf Provisions 1
  • 42 T Teague's Country Corner 1
  • 43 M McConnell Farms 1
  • 44 B Black Mountain Quick Stop 1
  • 45 B Brush Creek Gas & Grocery 1
  • 46 M MAPCO logo MAPCO 1
  • 47 R Red Dot 1
  • 48 M Madison Natural Foods 1
  • 49 T Tienda Los Nenes 1
  • 50 G Gas Up 1

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