Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

Iceflower tracks 109 stores from 62 grocery & convenience chains in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC. Lowes Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Food Lion and Sheetz.

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
62
Tracked stores
109
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. Lowes Foods and Food Lion sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▲1 +5.4%
2 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +1.6%
3 S Sheetz logo Sheetz ▼1 -3.8%
4 A ALDI logo ALDI - -7.5%
5 M Market Basket logo Market Basket - -9.5%
6 C Circle K logo Circle K - -17.1%
7 J Jack B Quick Stores - -45.5%
  • Grocery Store
  • Convenience Store
  • Liquor Store
  • Farm
  • Produce Store
  • Food or Beverage Store
  • Butcher Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

109 tracked store locations in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (66)
  • Convenience Store (26)
  • Liquor Store (5)
  • Farm (3)
  • Produce Store (3)
  • Food or Beverage Store (2)
  • Butcher Shop (2)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 21
  • 2 C Circle K logo Circle K 8
  • 3 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods 5
  • 4 S Sheetz logo Sheetz 5
  • 5 A ALDI logo ALDI 3
  • 6 C Cubbard Express logo Cubbard Express 3
  • 7 J Jack B Quick Stores 3
  • 8 M Market Basket logo Market Basket 3
  • 9 P Publix logo Publix 2
  • 10 I Ingles 2
  • 11 P Propst Superette 2
  • 12 S Shop 'n Save logo Shop 'n Save 2
  • 13 C Community Foods Market & Bakery 1
  • 14 D Deal Apple Orchards / Deal Orchards Inc 1
  • 15 J Jet Check Express 1
  • 16 B Barley Market 1
  • 17 S Shop & Save 2 1
  • 18 T The Natural Olive 1
  • 19 B B & B Food Store 1
  • 20 H Health Hut Natural Foods 1
  • 21 C Country Market 1
  • 22 P Perry Lowe Orchards 1
  • 23 A Antioch Food Mart 1
  • 24 S Sun Express 1
  • 25 D Discount Foods of Rutherford Collge 1
  • 26 B Black Bear General Store 1
  • 27 O Oak Hill Grocery 1
  • 28 B Brendletown Grocery 1
  • 29 L Linville Falls General Store 1
  • 30 W Warehouse Distillery 1
  • 31 S Sugarloaf Orchards 1
  • 32 B Brown Mountain Bottle Works 1
  • 33 B BYPASS BEVERAGE 1
  • 34 T The Ole Store And Vape 1
  • 35 M Minit Saver Market 1
  • 36 T The Healthy Pour Nutrition 1
  • 37 R Ronald Superette 1
  • 38 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 1
  • 39 C Catawba County Abc 1
  • 40 F Fairvalue 1
  • 41 A Asian Supermarket and Restaurant 1
  • 42 F Food Matters Market & Cafe 1
  • 43 F Fresh Market logo Fresh Market 1
  • 44 H Hermanos Chavez 1
  • 45 L Lenoir ABC Store 1
  • 46 F Foothills Farm & Art 1
  • 47 F Family Food Mart 1
  • 48 H Hickory Wine Shoppe 1
  • 49 F Fresh Market Produce 1
  • 50 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven 1

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