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. The Market and Quick N Easy sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Market | ▲3 | +19.7% |
| 2 | Quick N Easy | ▲5 | +18.0% |
| 3 | United Grocery Outlet | ▲1 | +17.4% |
| 4 | The New York Butcher Shoppe | ▲2 | +16.1% |
| 5 | I Market | - | +15.2% |
| 6 | Midway Mart | ▲7 | +14.6% |
| 7 | US Foods CHEF'STORE | ▲1 | +14.4% |
| 8 | BJ's Wholesale Club | - | +12.5% |
| 9 | SAV•MOR Foods | ▲3 | +9.9% |
| 10 | Buy & Go | ▲1 | +7.3% |
| 11 | Restaurant Depot | - | +7.1% |
| 12 | Tropicana Supermarket | ▲3 | +5.4% |
| 13 | Mecklenburg County ABC Store | - | +4.3% |
| 14 | Publix | - | +4.1% |
| 15 | Total Wine & More | - | +3.8% |
- Supermarkets
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Other grocery stores
- Farm
- Liquor Store
- Food & Beverage Store
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
5,134 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 975 of the 5,134 stores (19%); 3,074 of the 3,313 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across the United States.
- Supermarkets (1,326)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (906)
- Other grocery stores (800)
- Farm (412)
- Liquor Store (389)
- Food & Beverage Store (215)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (177)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Food Lion 534
- 2 Harris Teeter 184
- 3 ALDI 97
- 4 Lowes Foods 82
- 5 Ingles 78
- 6 Publix 60
- 7 Piggly Wiggly 54
- 8 The Honey Baked Ham Company 30
- 9 Short Stop Food Mart 29
- 10 Carlie C's IGA 29
- 11 ABC Store 27
- 12 Lidl 26
- 13 The Fresh Market 26
- 14 Sam's Club 25
- 15 Compare Foods 25
- 16 Total Wine & More 17
- 17 Whole Foods Market 16
- 18 Trader Joe's 13
- 19 Stop & Shop 12
- 20 Canteen 11
- 21 Fresh Foods IGA 10
- 22 BJ's Wholesale Club 10
- 23 Pepsi Bottling Ventures 9
- 24 Costco 9
- 25 Catawba County Abc 8
- 26 Seaview Crab Company 7
- 27 The Butcher's Market 7
- 28 Shop 'n Save 7
- 29 Red Bowl Asian Bistro 7
- 30 Tropicana Supermarket 6
- 31 Pepsi Bottling Group 6
- 32 New Dixie Mart 6
- 33 SAV•MOR Foods 6
- 34 ABC 6
- 35 Winestore 6
- 36 Sprouts Farmers Market 6
- 37 Country Mart 5
- 38 Earth Fare 5
- 39 Mecklenburg County ABC Store 5
- 40 ABC Liquor Store 5
- 41 Save A Lot 5
- 42 US Foods CHEF'STORE 5
- 43 Fastop 5
- 44 The New York Butcher Shoppe 5
- 45 Wake County ABC Store 5
- 46 Energy Mart Stores 5
- 47 Tommy's Mini Mart 4
- 48 United Grocery Outlet 4
- 49 One Stop 4
- 50 Ready Mart 4
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