Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Charlottesville, VA

Iceflower tracks 149 stores from 121 grocery & convenience chains in Charlottesville, VA. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harris Teeter and Virginia ABC.

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
121
Tracked stores
149
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. Food Lion and Harris Teeter sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Food Lion - +0.8%
2 Harris Teeter - -4.3%
3 Virginia ABC - -4.5%
  • Other grocery stores
  • Supermarkets
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Liquor Store
  • Farm
  • Produce Store
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

149 tracked store locations in Charlottesville, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 32 of the 149 stores (21%); 115 of the 121 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 8% across Virginia.

  • Other grocery stores (31)
  • Supermarkets (28)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (25)
  • Liquor Store (22)
  • Farm (18)
  • Produce Store (9)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (4)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Virginia ABC 14
  • 2 Food Lion 9
  • 3 Harris Teeter 3
  • 4 Kroger 3
  • 5 The Market 3
  • 6 Legacy Markets 2
  • 7 Dickie Brothers Orchard 1
  • 8 Boyd Tavern Market 1
  • 9 Standard Produce Company 1
  • 10 Sourwood Farm 1
  • 11 Hungry Hill Farm 1
  • 12 Indian Bazar 1
  • 13 Henley's Orchard 1
  • 14 Seamans' Orchard LLC 1
  • 15 Food Master 1
  • 16 Arrington Mini Mart 1
  • 17 Tilman Turkeys 1
  • 18 Sunshine Mini Mart 1
  • 19 La Esperanza Tienda Mexicana 1
  • 20 The Apple Shed 1
  • 21 Edgewood Apiaries & Farm 1
  • 22 Tastings 1
  • 23 Everest Grocery Store 1
  • 24 Tienda Latina San Jose 1
  • 25 Graves Grocery 1
  • 26 Silver Creek Orchards Inc 1
  • 27 Package Depot 1
  • 28 Farmstead Ferments 1
  • 29 La Favorita Latin Market 1
  • 30 Ragged Mountain Farm 1
  • 31 GOCO Food Mart 1
  • 32 Bellair Farm 1
  • 33 Quik Pik Convenience Store 1
  • 34 Whisper Hill Farm 1
  • 35 Kidds Store and Deli 1
  • 36 Shady's Place 1
  • 37 Shady Lane Family Farm 1
  • 38 Rivanna Farm 1
  • 39 Reid Super Save Market 1
  • 40 Pepsi 1
  • 41 Oliva 1
  • 42 El Tio Variedades 1
  • 43 Coca-Cola 1
  • 44 Wyants Country Store 1
  • 45 JPA Fast Mart 1
  • 46 The Markets 1
  • 47 Mini Mart 1
  • 48 Ragged Branch Distillery 1
  • 49 Crestvue Farm 1
  • 50 Nealand Farm 1

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