Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Winston-Salem, NC

Iceflower tracks 294 stores from 217 grocery & convenience chains in Winston-Salem, NC. Family Fare grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Food Lion.

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
217
Tracked stores
294
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. Family Fare and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Family Fare - +10.4%
2 ALDI - +2.1%
3 Food Lion - +1.0%
4 Compare Foods - -0.7%
5 Harris Teeter - -1.4%
6 Lowes Foods - -2.0%
7 Publix - -2.8%

Store footprint

Store map

294 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 73 of the 294 stores (25%); 205 of the 217 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 8% across North Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Food Lion 42
  • 2 Lowes Foods 13
  • 3 Harris Teeter 8
  • 4 ALDI 6
  • 5 Family Fare 4
  • 6 Publix 3
  • 7 Compare Foods 3
  • 8 Sam's Club 2
  • 9 Stop & Shop 2
  • 10 Triad Municipal ABC Board 2
  • 11 Lidl 2
  • 12 Ingles 2
  • 13 Lindo Michoacan Tienda LLC 1
  • 14 Pantry Shop #5 1
  • 15 Myers Grocery Store 1
  • 16 Parker Mart 1
  • 17 Rio Grande Mini Market 1
  • 18 Winston Food Mart 1
  • 19 Family Food Mart 1
  • 20 El Exito Latino 1
  • 21 R Store 1
  • 22 El Progreso 1
  • 23 Smith's Grocery & Grill 1
  • 24 Union Cross Cafe 1
  • 25 Zane's Clodbuster Farms 1
  • 26 Koren Farms 1
  • 27 City Lake Food 1
  • 28 Priddy's General Store 1
  • 29 The Market by Dragonfly Farms 1
  • 30 Jol Food Mart 1
  • 31 Dogwood Farms 1
  • 32 Tienda Hispana Salmar 1
  • 33 Fairway 1
  • 34 One Stop Food Mart 1
  • 35 Brandon Farms 1
  • 36 Mabes Berry Farm 1
  • 37 Mast Food Mart 1
  • 38 Tyro Trading Post 1
  • 39 Carolinas Foods 1
  • 40 HoneyBell's Country Store 1
  • 41 Cobblestone Farmers Market 1
  • 42 Tienda Mexicana Crystal 1
  • 43 Alpha and Omega Corn Maze 1
  • 44 Pilot Food 1
  • 45 Armstrong Artisan Farm 1
  • 46 Grouse Ridge Christmas Tree Farm 1
  • 47 Marcos Dried Peppers 1
  • 48 First Street Mart 1
  • 49 Cedar House Farms 1
  • 50 Best store 1

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