Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Champaign-Urbana, IL

Iceflower tracks 92 stores from 79 grocery & convenience chains in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Meijer grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Schnucks 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
79
Tracked stores
92
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. Meijer and Schnucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Meijer - +4.7%
2 Schnucks - +1.2%
3 ALDI ▲1 -11.2%
4 County Market ▼1 -30.8%
  • Liquor Store
  • Supermarkets
  • Other grocery stores
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Farm
  • Discount Grocers
  • Asian Supermarkets
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

92 tracked store locations in Champaign-Urbana, IL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 18 of the 92 stores (20%); 74 of the 79 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Liquor Store (24)
  • Supermarkets (20)
  • Other grocery stores (12)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (10)
  • Farm (7)
  • Discount Grocers (5)
  • Asian Supermarkets (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 County Market 6
  • 2 Schnucks 4
  • 3 Meijer 3
  • 4 ALDI 3
  • 5 Ruler Foods 2
  • 6 The Best of Africa's Food Store 1
  • 7 One Quik Stop 1
  • 8 Sola Gratia Farm 1
  • 9 Delight Flower Farm 1
  • 10 Liquor Locker 1
  • 11 Annapoorna Store 1
  • 12 Hardy's Reindeer Ranch 1
  • 13 Melvin Convenient 1
  • 14 Mint Creek Farm 1
  • 15 A1 Liquor 1
  • 16 Gibson Variety Liquors 1
  • 17 Blue Star Liquor 1
  • 18 JTA Foods 1
  • 19 Tienda Guatemala 1
  • 20 IGA 1
  • 21 Signature Meats 1
  • 22 GROVESTONE 1
  • 23 Mansfield Winks Mart 1
  • 24 Colonial Liquors 1
  • 25 Rantoul Food Mart 1
  • 26 Green Onion Asian Market 1
  • 27 Friar Tuck Beverage 1
  • 28 AM-KO Oriental Foods and Gifts 1
  • 29 Wal-Mart 3255 Supercenter 1
  • 30 Hollywood Liquor 1
  • 31 Ingold's Meat & Deli 1
  • 32 St Joseph IGA Foodliner 1
  • 33 Paxton Variety Liquors 1
  • 34 Urbana Mini Mart 1
  • 35 CBPB Popcorn Shop 1
  • 36 Mom & Pop's Kettle Korn Stop 1
  • 37 Edible Arrangements 1
  • 38 Paxton IGA 1
  • 39 Sav-Mor Pharmacy 1
  • 40 Market at the Square 1
  • 41 Living Light Farms 1
  • 42 The Brown Bag 1
  • 43 Zeel Mart 1
  • 44 Liquor Land 1
  • 45 ILLINI GRAB & GO 1
  • 46 Super Lucky Star Food & Liquor 1
  • 47 Old Time Meat and Deli Shop 1
  • 48 Hollywood Liquors 1
  • 49 Illini Pantry 1
  • 50 Campus Pantry 1

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