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. Tropicana Supermarket and Cubbard Express sit in the high-growth half.
#
Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T Tropicana Supermarket | ▲1 | +16.9% |
| 2 |
C
Cubbard Express
|
▲4 | +16.8% |
| 3 |
S
Save A Lot
|
▲4 | +16.5% |
| 4 | K Kwik Stop | ▲6 | +15.2% |
| 5 |
S
Sprouts Farmers Market
|
▲1 | +15.1% |
| 6 | E EPMart | ▲7 | +12.8% |
| 7 |
Q
Quik Mart
|
▲2 | +12.3% |
| 8 |
T
Total Wine & More
|
▲2 | +11.5% |
| 9 | E Express Mart | ▲4 | +11.5% |
| 10 | T Tommy's Mini Mart | ▲1 | +10.5% |
| 11 |
D
Duck Thru
|
▲3 | +8.1% |
| 12 |
T
The Spice & Tea Exchange
|
▲2 | +7.9% |
| 13 |
S
Sam's Club
|
- | +6.9% |
| 14 |
T
Trader Joe's
|
- | +6.0% |
| 15 |
B
BJ's Wholesale Club
|
- | +5.9% |
Store footprint
Store map
4,200 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category.
- Grocery Store (2,034)
- Convenience Store (1,454)
- Liquor Store (266)
- Farm (108)
- Food or Beverage Store (101)
- Butcher Shop (68)
- Produce Store (59)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
-
1
F
Food Lion 528
-
2
C
Circle K 417
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3
H
Harris Teeter 184
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4
S
Sheetz 136
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5
7
7-Eleven 114
-
6
L
Lowes Foods 81
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7
A
ALDI 81
- 8 I Ingles 72
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9
P
Publix 61
-
10
R
Refuel 53
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11
P
Piggly Wiggly 50
- 12 H Handy Mart 37
-
13
C
Carlie C's IGA 29
- 14 S Short Stop Food Mart 27
-
15
L
Lidl 26
-
16
T
The Fresh Market 24
-
17
S
-
18
S
Sam's Mart 21
-
19
C
Compare Foods 20
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20
M
Minuteman Food Mart 18
- 21 S Scotchman 16
-
22
T
-
23
W
Whole Foods Market 16
-
24
W
Wawa 15
-
25
T
-
26
D
-
27
H
Han-Dee Hugo's 11
-
28
A
ABC Store 11
- 29 S Scotchman Store 11
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30
B
-
31
S
Stop & Shop 10
- 32 E Express Mart 9
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33
C
Costco 9
- 34 Q Quality Mart 7
- 35 S Sav-Mor Foods 7
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36
S
Shop 'n Save 6
- 37 T Tropicana Supermarket 6
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38
S
- 39 C Country Store 5
-
40
E
Earth Fare 5
- 41 T The Spot 5
- 42 F Fastop 5
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43
S
-
44
M
Mecklenburg County ABC Store 5
- 45 K Kwik Stop 5
-
46
H
Hot Spot 5
-
47
W
Wegmans 4
-
48
B
Brew Thru 4
-
49
T
The Butcher's Market 4
- 50 R Ready Mart 4
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