Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 267 stores from 208 grocery & convenience chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Orange County ABC Store and Weaver Street Market.

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
208
Tracked stores
267
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 Orange County ABC Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Food Lion - +1.8%
2 Orange County ABC Store - -2.5%
3 Weaver Street Market - -6.0%
4 Harris Teeter - -6.2%
5 ALDI - -7.1%
6 Lowes Foods - -9.5%
7 Family Fare - -10.1%
8 Compare Foods - -10.4%

Store footprint

Store map

267 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 47 of the 267 stores (18%); 189 of the 208 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 8% across North Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Food Lion 23
  • 2 Harris Teeter 14
  • 3 Lowes Foods 4
  • 4 Family Fare 3
  • 5 Compare Foods 3
  • 6 Orange County ABC Store 3
  • 7 Weaver Street Market 3
  • 8 ALDI 3
  • 9 Tommy's Mini Mart 2
  • 10 Twins Meat Market 2
  • 11 Triangle Mini Mart 2
  • 12 Chatham County ABC 2
  • 13 Quick Mart 2
  • 14 Fast Food Mart 2
  • 15 The Root Cellar 2
  • 16 Durham County ABC 2
  • 17 The Fresh Market 2
  • 18 Carolina Hemp Hut 2
  • 19 Whole Foods Market 2
  • 20 Jireh Family Farm 1
  • 21 Raspa Fruit Lupita 1
  • 22 Sugar Hill Produce 1
  • 23 Clayton's Corner Grocery 1
  • 24 Carolina Food Mart 1
  • 25 Rise Up Nutrition 1
  • 26 Ray's Supermarket 1
  • 27 Edible Arrangements 1
  • 28 Capital Seafood Market 1
  • 29 1792 Beer Co. 1
  • 30 Cinco Estrellas NC 1
  • 31 Dead Broke Farm 1
  • 32 Mi Barrio 1
  • 33 La Tiendita 1
  • 34 Fricks Apiaries 1
  • 35 The Food Mart 1
  • 36 Ever Laughter Farm 1
  • 37 Split Acre Farm 1
  • 38 Lilly Den Farm 1
  • 39 Ramblers 1
  • 40 Tortilleria La Migueleña 1
  • 41 Holder Hill Farm 1
  • 42 Academy Quick Stop 1
  • 43 Hillsborough Farmers Market 1
  • 44 La Vaquita 1
  • 45 Mariakakis Fine Food & Wine 1
  • 46 Durham Farmers' Market 1
  • 47 McAdams Farm 1
  • 48 The Farm 1
  • 49 Spice Bazaar 1
  • 50 University Market 1

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