Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Cedar Rapids, IA

Iceflower tracks 94 stores from 69 grocery & convenience chains in Cedar Rapids, IA. Hy-Vee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fareway and ALDI.

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
69
Tracked stores
94
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 - +0.1%
2 Fareway - -4.6%
3 ALDI - -10.7%
  • Supermarkets
  • Liquor Store
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Other grocery stores
  • Farm
  • Discount Grocers
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

94 tracked store locations in Cedar Rapids, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 30 of the 94 stores (32%); 64 of the 69 tracked chains have a single store here. 22% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 14% across Iowa.

  • Supermarkets (30)
  • Liquor Store (21)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (8)
  • Other grocery stores (7)
  • Farm (5)
  • Discount Grocers (4)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Hy-Vee 15
  • 2 Fareway 7
  • 3 ALDI 4
  • 4 Smoking Joes 2
  • 5 Lefty's Convenience 2
  • 6 Big 10 Mart 1
  • 7 Whole Health Natural Foods 1
  • 8 Savor the Barn 1
  • 9 Whittier Market 1
  • 10 Point Liquor and Tobacco 1
  • 11 The Hangry Lady 1
  • 12 Interstate Grain Service 1
  • 13 Grieder Beverage Depot 1
  • 14 NewBo City Market 1
  • 15 Cultivate Hope Corner Store 1
  • 16 La Guanajuato 1
  • 17 Vineria Wine Shop 1
  • 18 Wilkie Liquors 1
  • 19 The Still House 1
  • 20 Cultivate Hope Urban Farm 1
  • 21 Saigon Market 1
  • 22 Kimm Oil Co 1
  • 23 Point Liquor & Tobbaco 1
  • 24 Iowa Popcorn Company 1
  • 25 Benz Beverage Depot 1
  • 26 Afghan Global Market 1
  • 27 JNS Caribbean Food Market 1
  • 28 South Troy Farms 1
  • 29 Local Craft Cellar 1
  • 30 Paradise Liquor & Tobacco 1
  • 31 Buffalo Ridge Orchard 1
  • 32 Hawkeye Convenience Stores 1
  • 33 7G Distributing 1
  • 34 Urbana Farmers Market 1
  • 35 Foodstop 1
  • 36 Keystone mini mart inc 1
  • 37 Ocean Liquor and Smoke 1
  • 38 Sam's Club 1
  • 39 New Pioneer Co-op 1
  • 40 Natural Grocers 1
  • 41 Gary's Foods 1
  • 42 Center Point Foods 1
  • 43 African Family Market 1
  • 44 Brothers Market 1
  • 45 Bloomsbury Farm 1
  • 46 Hometown Market 1
  • 47 Iowa smoke shop 1
  • 48 Sisters' African Food Market LLC 1
  • 49 Westside Spirits 1
  • 50 Uptown Liquor 1

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