Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Dover, DE

Iceflower tracks 116 stores from 106 grocery & convenience chains in Dover, DE. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Redner's Warehouse Markets and ALDI.

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
106
Tracked stores
116
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 Redner's Warehouse Markets sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Food Lion - +5.3%
2 Redner's Warehouse Markets - -7.8%
3 ALDI - -10.9%
  • Liquor Store
  • Other grocery stores
  • Supermarkets
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Farm
  • Discount Grocers
  • Butcher Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

116 tracked store locations in Dover, DE, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 15 of the 116 stores (13%); 102 of the 106 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 8% across Delaware.

  • Liquor Store (45)
  • Other grocery stores (16)
  • Supermarkets (14)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (13)
  • Farm (7)
  • Discount Grocers (5)
  • Butcher Shop (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Food Lion 5
  • 2 ALDI 4
  • 3 Redner's Warehouse Markets 3
  • 4 Country Corners Market 2
  • 5 Camden Wyoming Market 1
  • 6 Kirby and Holloway Provision Co 1
  • 7 Tienda Latina 1
  • 8 West Indian Caricom Market 1
  • 9 Airport Discount Liquor 1
  • 10 Fola International Market 1
  • 11 United Electric Supply 1
  • 12 Country Liquors 1
  • 13 Tia's Grocery Store 1
  • 14 Thomas Family Farm LLC 1
  • 15 Millers Butcher Shop 1
  • 16 Jolly Joe's Whiteoak Liquors 1
  • 17 Indian Point Farm 1
  • 18 Mule Run Meats 1
  • 19 3rd Base Liquors 1
  • 20 Caribbean Market and Multi Services 1
  • 21 Elite Liquors 1
  • 22 M & M Liquors 1
  • 23 Growmark FS 1
  • 24 Athletic Depot 1
  • 25 Mike's Food Market 1
  • 26 Cheers Wine & Spirits 1
  • 27 Willow Grove Liquors 1
  • 28 Lepore's Liquors 1
  • 29 Spruance City Liquors 1
  • 30 Sugar Mommas Market 1
  • 31 Marydel Grocery 1
  • 32 Downtown Junction 1
  • 33 Cigarette & Tobacco Outlet 1
  • 34 Happy 13 Liquors 1
  • 35 M&C Caribbean Market 1
  • 36 Big Joe's Honey 1
  • 37 Hill Brothers Produce 1
  • 38 Willow Grove Food Mart 1
  • 39 Spectrum Farms 1
  • 40 Milford Latino Market and Taqueria El Parientito 1
  • 41 Cheswold Liquors 1
  • 42 D and D Liquors 1
  • 43 Far Fetched Farms 1
  • 44 O'Neill's Liquor Store 1
  • 45 La Tropicana Market 1
  • 46 Ernie's Country Store 1
  • 47 The Little Farm 1
  • 48 John's Market 1
  • 49 Edible Arrangements 1
  • 50 Driftwood Spirits 1

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