Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Columbus, GA-AL

Iceflower tracks 152 stores from 126 grocery & convenience chains in Columbus, GA-AL. Publix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Piggly Wiggly.

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
126
Tracked stores
152
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. Publix and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Publix - +3.4%
2 ALDI - -1.7%
3 Piggly Wiggly - -1.7%
4 Rainbow Foods ▲1 -5.8%
5 Winn-Dixie ▼1 -73.7%

Store footprint

Store map

152 tracked store locations in Columbus, GA-AL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 29 of the 152 stores (19%); 119 of the 126 tracked chains have a single store here. 30% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across Georgia.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Piggly Wiggly 12
  • 2 Publix 6
  • 3 Winn-Dixie 5
  • 4 ALDI 3
  • 5 Rainbow Foods 3
  • 6 Fort Benning Commissary 2
  • 7 Food Mart 2
  • 8 Right Stop 1
  • 9 Oakland Supermarket IGA 1
  • 10 Forrest Road Package Store 1
  • 11 Pittsview Corner Market 1
  • 12 Kimi Farms 1
  • 13 Young's Grocery and Hardware 1
  • 14 1120 Package 1
  • 15 Belinda Kay's Health Store 1
  • 16 Holly Hills Beverage Shop 1
  • 17 The Food Mill 1
  • 18 Dev Indian Grocery 1
  • 19 Follow Me Land and Livestock 1
  • 20 Express Market 1
  • 21 Star Food Mart 1
  • 22 The Russell County Butchery 1
  • 23 Cataula Package Store 1
  • 24 Napier's Midtown Market 1
  • 25 Super C Convenience Store 1
  • 26 Talbotton Beverage Mart 1
  • 27 Cheers Beverage Shop 1
  • 28 Barrels and Bottles Liquor Store 1
  • 29 Richland Rum Distillery 1
  • 30 Wakis African and Caribbean Mart 1
  • 31 Handee Mart 1
  • 32 Dinglewood Party Shop 1
  • 33 Steam Mill Food Mart 1
  • 34 The Bottle Shop 1
  • 35 Milgen Road Food Mart 1
  • 36 River Road Nutrition 1
  • 37 Lee's Package Store 1
  • 38 Speed Food Mart 1
  • 39 Shoppers Stop 1
  • 40 Ez Package Store 1
  • 41 Lucky Stop 1
  • 42 M L Food Mart 1
  • 43 D and D Package Store 1
  • 44 Tienda La Nueva Esperanza 1
  • 45 Five Star Food Service 1
  • 46 Ivy Park Market 1
  • 47 A-1 Lotto Mart 1
  • 48 Memitos Fresh Market 1
  • 49 Macon Food Mart 1
  • 50 Class Six 1

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