Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 2,703 stores from 1,802 grocery & convenience chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Publix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of New Grand Mart and Fresh World.

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
1,802
Tracked stores
2,703
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 New Grand Mart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Publix - +12.8%
2 New Grand Mart - +12.0%
3 Fresh World - +8.8%
4 Total Wine & More - +8.0%
5 Streets Market - +7.4%
6 MOM's Organic Market ▲1 +6.6%
7 Martin's Super Markets - +4.9%
8 Costco - +4.8%
9 Trader Joe's ▲1 +4.7%
10 H Mart - +4.5%
11 Sam's Club ▼1 +3.3%
12 Americana Grocery ▲1 +2.7%
13 Whole Foods Market - +2.6%
14 Weis Markets - +2.5%
15 Food Lion - +2.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,703 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 456 of the 2,703 stores (17%); 1,690 of the 1,802 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 0.2% across District of Columbia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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