Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Delaware

Iceflower tracks 652 stores from 555 grocery & convenience chains in Delaware. Lidl grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Food Lion and BJ's Wholesale Club.

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
555
Tracked stores
652
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. Lidl and Food Lion sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Lidl - +13.4%
2 Food Lion - +1.3%
3 BJ's Wholesale Club - +0.3%
4 Safeway - -3.9%
5 ACME Markets - -4.1%
6 Redner's Warehouse Markets ▲1 -4.3%
7 Giant Food ▲1 -6.0%
8 ShopRite ▼1 -7.0%
9 ALDI ▼1 -12.1%
10 Country Corners Market - -18.1%

Store footprint

Store map

652 tracked store locations in Delaware, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 58 of the 652 stores (9%); 524 of the 555 tracked chains have a single store here. 38% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across the United States.

Top tracked chains by store count

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