Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Chattanooga, TN-GA

Iceflower tracks 329 stores from 265 grocery & convenience chains in Chattanooga, TN-GA. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Food City and United Grocery Outlet.

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
265
Tracked stores
329
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 Food City sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Food Lion - +2.8%
2 Food City - +0.7%
3 United Grocery Outlet - -1.4%
4 Publix - -3.0%
5 Save A Lot - -3.5%
6 Ingles - -5.3%
7 ALDI - -8.0%
8 Twice The Ice - -23.0%

Store footprint

Store map

329 tracked store locations in Chattanooga, TN-GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 50 of the 329 stores (15%); 247 of the 265 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 19% across Tennessee.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Food City 25
  • 2 Publix 8
  • 3 Kankus Express 7
  • 4 ALDI 5
  • 5 Save A Lot 5
  • 6 Ingles 4
  • 7 United Grocery Outlet 4
  • 8 Food Lion 3
  • 9 Twice The Ice 3
  • 10 Sunset Market 2
  • 11 La Guatemalteca 2
  • 12 Five Star Food Service 2
  • 13 Country Mart 2
  • 14 Asian Food & Gifts of Chattanooga 2
  • 15 Liquor Store 2
  • 16 Linda's Produce 2
  • 17 The Honey Baked Ham Company 2
  • 18 Whole Foods Market 2
  • 19 Raulston Acres Christmas Tree Farm 1
  • 20 Pedestrian Wine and Cheese Shop 1
  • 21 Dam Whiskey Corp. 1
  • 22 Rossville Bottle Shop 1
  • 23 Walnut Bridge Market 1
  • 24 The Market 1
  • 25 Alpine 1
  • 26 European Market 1
  • 27 Melon Patch Farms 1
  • 28 Scenic City Wine 1
  • 29 Chattanooga Market 1
  • 30 Macks Highway Market 1
  • 31 Carniceria Rojas 1
  • 32 Signal Mountain Mist Farm 1
  • 33 Town and Country Food and Tobacco 1
  • 34 Happy Mart 1
  • 35 Rossville Corner Market 1
  • 36 Costco 1
  • 37 Gate 11 Distillery 1
  • 38 Warebranch Market & Deli 1
  • 39 Oasis Liquors 1
  • 40 Island Point Wine & Spirits 1
  • 41 Kathy's 1
  • 42 ADI Wholesale Market 1
  • 43 Lookout Liquor and Wine 1
  • 44 Gaining Ground Grocery 1
  • 45 Bleu Fox Cheese Shop 1
  • 46 Bonny Oaks Liquor and Wine 1
  • 47 Rock Spring Produce 1
  • 48 Sokdee Oriental Market 1
  • 49 Vine Street Market 1
  • 50 Hart & Hive Provisions 1

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