Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Athens-Clarke County, GA

Iceflower tracks 102 stores from 91 grocery & convenience chains in Athens-Clarke County, GA. Kroger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Publix and Quick Pantry.

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
91
Tracked stores
102
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. Kroger and Publix sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Kroger - +0.8%
2 Publix - -4.8%
3 Quick Pantry - -7.5%
  • Liquor Store
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Supermarkets
  • Other grocery stores
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Farm
  • Warehouse Club
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

102 tracked store locations in Athens-Clarke County, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 16 of the 102 stores (16%); 86 of the 91 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Liquor Store (26)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (17)
  • Supermarkets (17)
  • Other grocery stores (16)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (7)
  • Farm (5)
  • Warehouse Club (4)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Kroger 5
  • 2 Publix 4
  • 3 Quick Pantry 3
  • 4 ALDI 2
  • 5 Jimbo's 2
  • 6 Munch Hut 1
  • 7 Neese Grocery 1
  • 8 Marigold Market 1
  • 9 Bottle King Package Shop 1
  • 10 Sinaloa Super Market 1
  • 11 Food Mart 1
  • 12 Thor's Wine & Spirits 1
  • 13 Hickory Hill Farm Carlton GA 1
  • 14 La Duranguense 1
  • 15 Cork & Bottle Package 1
  • 16 J's Bottle Shop 1
  • 17 The Picnic Basket Meal Market 1
  • 18 Cheers! Package 1
  • 19 Terrapin Beer Company 1
  • 20 Oak House Distillery 1
  • 21 Dawg's Food Mart 1
  • 22 Piedmont Provisions 1
  • 23 Nature's Harvest Meat 1
  • 24 Strickland Pride Produce 1
  • 25 Tiny Town Minit Mart 1
  • 26 Liquor Express 1
  • 27 Stripling's General Store 1
  • 28 Los Morros 1
  • 29 La Pasadita Inc. 1
  • 30 Camino Real Mexican Store 1
  • 31 Athens Seafood Market 1
  • 32 Paoli Junction 1
  • 33 The People's Pantry 1
  • 34 Village Wine & Spirits 1
  • 35 Quick Stop 1
  • 36 Piggly Wiggly 1
  • 37 Bogart Pantry 1
  • 38 On the Way Food Stores 1
  • 39 Leaping Goat Soap 1
  • 40 Caribe United Farm 1
  • 41 Athens Farmers Market 1
  • 42 Jones Petroleum 1
  • 43 Bread Basket Food Stores Inc 1
  • 44 Moon Farms Country Market 1
  • 45 Airport Mini Mart 1
  • 46 Bulldog Corner 1
  • 47 Angeles J. Supermarket & Taqueria 1
  • 48 La Jalisco 1
  • 49 Union Liquor Store 1
  • 50 Bootlegger 1

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