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 The Honey Baked Ham Company sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowes Foods | ▲1 | +14.0% |
| 2 | The Honey Baked Ham Company | ▲1 | +5.2% |
| 3 | Mecklenburg County ABC Store | - | +4.0% |
| 4 | Triveni Supermarket | ▲1 | +3.7% |
| 5 | Kingsway | ▲1 | +2.2% |
| 6 | Total Wine & More | ▲1 | +2.2% |
| 7 | Las Americas | - | +1.9% |
| 8 | Quick Stop | - | +1.6% |
| 9 | Harris Teeter | - | +1.0% |
| 10 | Food Lion | - | +0.4% |
| 11 | Publix | - | +0.3% |
| 12 | Ingles | ▼1 | +0.2% |
| 13 | Cashion's Quik Stop | ▲1 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Sam's Club | - | -0.7% |
| 15 | BJ's Wholesale Club | - | -2.8% |
- Supermarkets
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Other grocery stores
- Liquor Store
- Farm
- Discount Grocers
- Food & Beverage Store
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
1,114 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 267 of the 1,114 stores (24%); 648 of the 714 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Supermarkets (300)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (184)
- Other grocery stores (153)
- Liquor Store (93)
- Farm (78)
- Discount Grocers (46)
- Food & Beverage Store (38)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Food Lion 119
- 2 Harris Teeter 75
- 3 ALDI 35
- 4 Publix 28
- 5 Compare Foods 10
- 6 Lidl 10
- 7 The Honey Baked Ham Company 9
- 8 Sam's Club 9
- 9 Lowes Foods 8
- 10 Total Wine & More 7
- 11 Ingles 6
- 12 Red Bowl Asian Bistro 6
- 13 The Fresh Market 6
- 14 Mecklenburg County ABC Store 5
- 15 Earth Fare 5
- 16 IGA 5
- 17 The New York Butcher Shoppe 4
- 18 Cashion's Quik Stop 4
- 19 Project LeanNation 4
- 20 Whole Foods Market 4
- 21 Las Americas 3
- 22 Triveni Supermarket 3
- 23 Costco 3
- 24 Local Market 3
- 25 Wow Supermarket 3
- 26 Kingsway 3
- 27 Quick Stop 3
- 28 Trader Joe's 3
- 29 BJ's Wholesale Club 3
- 30 Country Corner 2
- 31 Farm Fresh 2
- 32 Albright ABC 2
- 33 Saltwater Markets 2
- 34 Canteen 2
- 35 ABC Store 2
- 36 Super G Mart 2
- 37 The Market 2
- 38 Winestore 2
- 39 Murto Made Distillery 2
- 40 Silver Express 2
- 41 Cramerton ABC 2
- 42 Danny's Place 2
- 43 A & A International Food 2
- 44 Shop 'n Save 2
- 45 Patel Brothers 2
- 46 Sprouts Farmers Market 2
- 47 Rowan/Kannapolis ABC S 2
- 48 Statesville ABC Board 2
- 49 Common Market 2
- 50 Lincoln County ABC Store 2
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