Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 1,031 stores from 428 grocery & convenience chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Lowes Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Total Wine & More and Refuel.

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
428
Tracked stores
1,031
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. Lowes Foods and Total Wine & More sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▲1 +12.9%
2 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - +11.3%
3 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲1 +10.6%
4 M Mecklenburg County ABC Store logo Mecklenburg County ABC Store ▲1 +10.4%
5 I Ingles - +6.6%
6 K Kingsway ▲1 +6.5%
7 C Compare Foods logo Compare Foods - +5.9%
8 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +2.8%
9 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +1.1%
10 C Costco logo Costco - +0.8%
11 T The New York Butcher Shoppe logo The New York Butcher Shoppe - +0.8%
12 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +0.5%
13 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +0.2%
14 W Wow Supermarket ▲1 +0.1%
15 P Publix logo Publix - -0.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,031 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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