Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA

Iceflower tracks 137 stores from 105 grocery & convenience chains in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Food City and Virginia ABC.

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
105
Tracked stores
137
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 Food City sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Food Lion ▲1 +16.2%
2 Food City - +0.6%
3 Virginia ABC ▲1 -11.2%
4 Kroger ▼1 -23.2%
5 Price Less IGA - -31.8%
6 Food Country USA ▼1 -62.5%

Store footprint

Store map

137 tracked store locations in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 33 of the 137 stores (24%); 97 of the 105 tracked chains have a single store here. 28% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 19% across Tennessee.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Food City 17
  • 2 Virginia ABC 5
  • 3 Kroger 4
  • 4 Price Less IGA 4
  • 5 Food Country USA 3
  • 6 Food Lion 3
  • 7 ALDI 2
  • 8 Quick Stop 2
  • 9 Surgoinsville Mini Mart 1
  • 10 Canteen 1
  • 11 Boone Store 1
  • 12 Friendly Mart 1
  • 13 Save A Lot 1
  • 14 Hook and Ladder Tennessee Moonshine 1
  • 15 JR's Produce 1
  • 16 Konnarock Store & Gas 1
  • 17 Big M 1
  • 18 Hickory Tree Grocery 1
  • 19 B & K Farm Supply 1
  • 20 Hillbilly Food Stores Inc 1
  • 21 Jolly Time Liquor and Wine 1
  • 22 Crossroads Farm Supply & Deli 1
  • 23 Minute Markets Inc 1
  • 24 George and Sids 1
  • 25 Katbird's Wine and Gourmet 1
  • 26 Purple Cow 1
  • 27 West Kingsport Package Store 1
  • 28 Legacy Wine & Spirits 1
  • 29 Sams Package 1
  • 30 Abingdon Farmers Market 1
  • 31 Warrior Mart 1
  • 32 Rock Springs Mart 1
  • 33 Bristol Health Food Store 1
  • 34 Black Diamond Market 1
  • 35 Bully's Market No. 2 1
  • 36 Village Center 1
  • 37 Blackwell Chapel Store 1
  • 38 Midfield Market 1
  • 39 Colonial Heights Package Store 1
  • 40 Stanley Valley Market 1
  • 41 Red Roof Disc Cigarette Center 1
  • 42 G and G Country Store 1
  • 43 Country Basket 1
  • 44 King City Distillery 1
  • 45 Lost State Distilling 1
  • 46 Ballpark Corner Market 1
  • 47 Lakeview Market & Deli 1
  • 48 Quickee Mart 1
  • 49 Mi Tierra Market 1
  • 50 Wolf Farm Natural Elements 1

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