Growth
Food Lion against its category
The biggest tracked US supermarkets by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Food Lion's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kroger | +10.4% |
| 2 | Publix | -0.8% |
| 3 | Food Lion | -3.0% |
| 4 | Meijer | +1.0% |
| 5 | Safeway | -4.0% |
| 6 | H-E-B | +14.3% |
| 7 | Harris Teeter | -3.8% |
| 8 | Albertsons | -3.7% |
| 9 | Smith's Food and Drug Stores | +2.6% |
| 10 | Giant Eagle | -3.0% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
1,188 tracked Food Lion locations across 10 US states. North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina hold 84% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- North Carolina 534
- Virginia 291
- South Carolina 178
- Maryland 62
- Georgia 48
- Tennessee 27
- Delaware 21
- West Virginia 16
- Pennsylvania 7
- Kentucky 4
Customer overlap
Who shops at Food Lion
Tracked chains Food Lion customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
Harris Teeter
100
Lowes Foods
60
Virginia ABC
45
Bojangles'
39
Royal Farms
39
Parker's
36
Cook Out
27
Sheetz
27
Wawa
26
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