Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 856 stores from 642 grocery & convenience chains in Columbus, OH. The Honey Baked Ham Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BJ's Wholesale Club and Kroger.

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
642
Tracked stores
856
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. The Honey Baked Ham Company and BJ's Wholesale Club sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 The Honey Baked Ham Company - +10.4%
2 BJ's Wholesale Club - +10.0%
3 Kroger - +6.4%
4 Gordon Food Service Store - +2.1%
5 Carfagna's Market ▲1 +0.9%
6 Costco - -3.2%
7 Sam's Club - -4.8%
8 Giant Eagle - -5.1%
9 Save A Lot ▲1 -5.6%
10 Meijer - -6.3%
11 ALDI - -8.4%
12 Fresh Thyme Market - -11.7%
13 Whole Foods Market - -16.5%
14 Ameristop Food Mart - -17.3%
15 Market District ▼2 -80.7%

Store footprint

Store map

856 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 155 of the 856 stores (18%); 600 of the 642 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are butcher shops, against 5% across Ohio.

Top tracked chains by store count

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