Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Ames, IA

Iceflower tracks 46 stores from 32 grocery & convenience chains in Ames, IA.

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
32
Tracked stores
46
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. Hy-Vee and Fareway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Hy-Vee - -2.1%
2 Fareway - -2.5%
  • Supermarkets
  • Liquor Store
  • Farm
  • Other grocery stores
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Butcher Shop
  • Produce Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

46 tracked store locations in Ames, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 19 of the 46 stores (41%); 30 of the 32 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Supermarkets (19)
  • Liquor Store (7)
  • Farm (6)
  • Other grocery stores (4)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (3)
  • Butcher Shop (2)
  • Produce Store (2)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Fareway 9
  • 2 Hy-Vee 7
  • 3 Kwik 1
  • 4 Gateway 1
  • 5 Storybook Orchard 1
  • 6 The Pumpkin Patch 1
  • 7 DairyBrink 1
  • 8 Rinehart's Family Farm 1
  • 9 Ames Asian Market 1
  • 10 Berry Patch Farm 1
  • 11 Story City Locker 1
  • 12 DeMoss Pumpkin Farm 1
  • 13 Ames British Foods 1
  • 14 Clear Creek Orchard 1
  • 15 Root to Rise Farm 1
  • 16 Town & Country 1
  • 17 Logsdon's Grocery 1
  • 18 Ridgeport Locker 1
  • 19 Slim's Country Market 1
  • 20 Sundown Liquor & Smokes 1
  • 21 Neighborhood Liquor Mart 1
  • 22 Della Viti 1
  • 23 Perk Energy 1
  • 24 Story City Liquor & Smoke Shop 1
  • 25 Dollar Fresh Market 1
  • 26 Cyclone Liquors 1
  • 27 Gateway Express 1
  • 28 AJ's Liquor 1
  • 29 Center Grove Orchard 1
  • 30 Wheatsfield Cooperative 1
  • 31 ALDI 1
  • 32 Sam's Club 1

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