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. Trader Joe's and Costco sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trader Joe's | - | +14.4% |
| 2 | Costco | - | +2.4% |
| 3 | Sam's Club | - | +1.7% |
| 4 | Tinee Giant | - | -0.4% |
| 5 | Farm Fresh | - | -3.0% |
| 6 | BJ's Wholesale Club | - | -5.1% |
| 7 | Harris Teeter | - | -5.2% |
| 8 | Stop & Go | - | -5.3% |
| 9 | Coast Guard Exchange | - | -7.0% |
| 10 | Virginia ABC | - | -7.9% |
| 11 | Food Lion | - | -8.1% |
| 12 | The Fresh Market | - | -8.6% |
| 13 | Total Wine & More | - | -8.6% |
| 14 | Happy Shopper | - | -8.6% |
| 15 | ALDI | - | -12.0% |
- Supermarkets
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Liquor Store
- Other grocery stores
- Farm
- Food & Beverage Store
- Farmers Market
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
730 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 223 of the 730 stores (31%); 387 of the 421 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 8% across Virginia.
- Supermarkets (169)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (117)
- Liquor Store (91)
- Other grocery stores (88)
- Farm (40)
- Food & Beverage Store (32)
- Farmers Market (30)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Food Lion 87
- 2 Virginia ABC 74
- 3 Harris Teeter 25
- 4 ALDI 19
- 5 Kroger 18
- 6 Navy Exchange 16
- 7 Edible Arrangements 11
- 8 Lidl 10
- 9 Tinee Giant 9
- 10 Total Wine & More 6
- 11 Sam's Club 5
- 12 Publix 5
- 13 Happy Shopper 5
- 14 The Fresh Market 5
- 15 BJ's Wholesale Club 4
- 16 Stop & Go 4
- 17 Farm Fresh 3
- 18 Coast Guard Exchange 3
- 19 Costco 3
- 20 Trader Joe's 3
- 21 US Foods CHEF'STORE 2
- 22 E Mart 2
- 23 Big Apple Food Mart 2
- 24 Hickory Farms Holiday Market 2
- 25 Organic Food Depot 2
- 26 La Botica Hispana 2
- 27 Piggly Wiggly 2
- 28 Jr Market 2
- 29 The Honey Baked Ham Company 2
- 30 El Rey 2
- 31 Whole Foods Market 2
- 32 Anand Bazaar 1
- 33 Camelot Tobacco Food Mart 1
- 34 Tindahan 1
- 35 Jung Ha Oriental Market 1
- 36 Atlantic Coast Turf 1
- 37 The Meat Shack 1
- 38 Jefferson Pit Stop 1
- 39 Meats Of Virginia Butcher Shop and Deli 1
- 40 Bay Breeze Farms 1
- 41 Currituck Meat Market 1
- 42 Yianni's Warehouse 1
- 43 Great Mart 1
- 44 Save A Lot 1
- 45 Nikko's Tindahan Oriental Store 1
- 46 Creekmore's Place 1
- 47 3W's Farm Market 1
- 48 Peters Market 1
- 49 Anas Halal Grocery 1
- 50 Oceana Commissary 1
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