Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 1,575 stores from 1,247 grocery & convenience chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. ShopRite grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Weis Markets and Costco.

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
1,247
Tracked stores
1,575
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. ShopRite and Weis Markets sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 ShopRite ▲1 +7.1%
2 Weis Markets ▲1 +6.6%
3 Costco - +6.0%
4 Sam's Club ▲1 +5.9%
5 The Honey Baked Ham Company - +4.8%
6 MOM's Organic Market - +4.1%
7 Food Lion ▼1 +3.8%
8 Whole Foods Market - +2.4%
9 Wegmans - +1.5%
10 Trader Joe's ▲1 +1.1%
11 Redner's Warehouse Markets - -0.2%
12 Lidl ▲1 -0.2%
13 Harris Teeter ▼1 -0.3%
14 Giant Food - -0.5%
15 Green Valley Marketplace ▲1 -0.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,575 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 169 of the 1,575 stores (11%); 1,175 of the 1,247 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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