Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 624 stores from 411 grocery & convenience chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Publix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BJ's Wholesale Club and ABC Store.

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
411
Tracked stores
624
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. Publix and BJ's Wholesale Club sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Publix ▲2 +19.3%
2 BJ's Wholesale Club ▲2 +17.7%
3 ABC Store - +14.0%
4 Sam's Club - +3.2%
5 Total Wine & More - -0.3%
6 Trader Joe's - -0.4%
7 Food Lion - -2.3%
8 Wegmans - -2.5%
9 Whole Foods Market - -2.6%
10 Harris Teeter - -2.8%
11 The Fresh Market - -3.8%
12 Compare Foods - -5.6%
13 Carlie C's IGA - -6.9%
14 ALDI ▼2 -7.7%
15 The Honey Baked Ham Company - -10.0%

Store footprint

Store map

624 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 146 of the 624 stores (23%); 377 of the 411 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 18% across North Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

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