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. Lowes Foods and Publix sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowes Foods | ▲1 | +11.9% |
| 2 | Publix | - | +7.3% |
| 3 | The Honey Baked Ham Company | - | +2.6% |
| 4 | ALDI | ▼1 | +0.2% |
| 5 | Food Lion | - | -0.7% |
| 6 | Harris Teeter | - | -1.8% |
| 7 | Piggly Wiggly | - | -7.8% |
| 8 | Carolina Spirits | - | -11.7% |
| 9 | Edible Arrangements | - | -34.0% |
| 10 | The New York Butcher Shoppe | - | -42.0% |
- Liquor Store
- Supermarkets
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Other grocery stores
- Food & Beverage Store
- Farm
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
431 tracked store locations in Charleston-North Charleston, SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 72 of the 431 stores (17%); 298 of the 329 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are food & beverage stores, against 4% across South Carolina.
- Liquor Store (107)
- Supermarkets (89)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (51)
- Other grocery stores (42)
- Food & Beverage Store (39)
- Farm (19)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (16)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Food Lion 21
- 2 Harris Teeter 20
- 3 Publix 16
- 4 Piggly Wiggly 8
- 5 ALDI 7
- 6 The New York Butcher Shoppe 5
- 7 Lowes Foods 4
- 8 Edible Arrangements 3
- 9 Carolina Spirits 3
- 10 IGA 3
- 11 The Honey Baked Ham Company 3
- 12 El Molino Supermarket 2
- 13 Liquor 4 Less 2
- 14 Charlie's Grocery 2
- 15 Port City Liquors 2
- 16 Southern Roots Smokehouse 2
- 17 Links Liquor 2
- 18 The Citadel 2
- 19 Egan's Spirits 2
- 20 Liquorton 2
- 21 Creekville Spirits 2
- 22 Bottles Beverage Superstore 2
- 23 Total Wine & More 2
- 24 Navy Exchange 2
- 25 Lidl 2
- 26 Costco 2
- 27 Earth Fare 2
- 28 Whole Foods Market 2
- 29 Trader Joe's 2
- 30 Charge Up Nutrition SC 1
- 31 Gaslite Liquors 1
- 32 High Wire Distilling 1
- 33 OPIE Drive-Thru Grocery 1
- 34 Finn and Meadow Wine and Spirits 1
- 35 Sauer Grapes Wine Shop 1
- 36 Folly Beach Red Dot 1
- 37 Corner Stop 1
- 38 Boone Hill Liquors 1
- 39 Quick Stop 1
- 40 Clawson's Christmas Trees 1
- 41 Harbor Spirits 1
- 42 Charleston Liquor & Wine 1
- 43 Obama Quick Stop 1
- 44 Westbury Farms 1
- 45 Trolley Mart 1
- 46 Mo Mart 1
- 47 Greenberg Spirits 1
- 48 Top Hat Wine & Liquors 1
- 49 Discount Store 1
- 50 Ashley Liquor 1
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