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. Shop 'n Save and Food Lion sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shop 'n Save | ▲1 | +9.2% |
| 2 | Food Lion | - | +8.1% |
| 3 | Catawba County Abc | - | -0.7% |
| 4 | Ingles | - | -2.6% |
| 5 | Lowes Foods | - | -8.3% |
| 6 | ALDI | - | -15.8% |
| 7 | Market Basket | ▲1 | -23.2% |
| 8 | Jack B Quick Stores | ▼2 | -100.0% |
- Supermarkets
- Other grocery stores
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Farm
- Liquor Store
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Food & Beverage Store
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
172 tracked store locations in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 41 of the 172 stores (24%); 116 of the 127 tracked chains have a single store here. 14% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 18% across North Carolina.
- Supermarkets (49)
- Other grocery stores (36)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (24)
- Farm (15)
- Liquor Store (14)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (7)
- Food & Beverage Store (6)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Food Lion 21
- 2 Catawba County Abc 8
- 3 Lowes Foods 5
- 4 Market Basket 4
- 5 Shop 'n Save 3
- 6 Jack B Quick Stores 3
- 7 Ingles 3
- 8 ALDI 3
- 9 Propst Superette 2
- 10 Shop & Save 2
- 11 Country Market 2
- 12 C & W Convenience Store 1
- 13 BT Sales 1
- 14 Fisherman's Catch II 1
- 15 Happy Day Grocery 1
- 16 The Rustic Hyde 1
- 17 Freedom Farm 1
- 18 Fair Value 1
- 19 East West Convenience Store 1
- 20 3-Way Supply 1
- 21 Tims Discount Foods 1
- 22 The Farmers' Daughter 1
- 23 South Mountain Distilling Co 1
- 24 Super Estrella 1
- 25 Hermanos Chavez 1
- 26 On The Hill General Store 1
- 27 The Healthy Pour Nutrition 1
- 28 Hickory Farms 1
- 29 Hilltop Mart 1
- 30 This and That Variety 1
- 31 Enola Crossroads Grill 1
- 32 ABC Store 1
- 33 Perry's Berry's Vineyard & Winery 1
- 34 IGA 1
- 35 Morganton Natural Foods 1
- 36 True Cut Ranch 1
- 37 Trading Post Produce 1
- 38 Penny Patch Produce & Garden Center 1
- 39 Banana Box Grocery Drexel 1
- 40 Case Farms 1
- 41 Vinai Asian International Market 1
- 42 Lisa's Seafood Market 1
- 43 Lake Lookout Market 1
- 44 Fyreside Bottles and Brews 1
- 45 Coca-Cola Bottling Co. 1
- 46 Rincon Hispano 1
- 47 Propst Farms 1
- 48 Saunders Family Farms 1
- 49 Tienda Hispana 3 Hermanos 1
- 50 Sunshine Farm 1
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