Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 3,531 stores from 2,419 grocery & convenience chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. H Mart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Armanetti Liquor and KD Market.

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
2,419
Tracked stores
3,531
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. H Mart and Armanetti Liquor sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Mart ▲3 +19.5%
2 Armanetti Liquor ▲1 +16.7%
3 KD Market ▲4 +15.1%
4 Sunset Foods ▲1 +14.0%
5 CD Liquors ▲3 +13.0%
6 Garden Fresh Market ▲4 +12.7%
7 Carniceria Guanajuato ▲6 +11.7%
8 Valle's Produce ▲1 +11.2%
9 The Honey Baked Ham Company ▲2 +9.0%
10 Berkot's Super Foods - +8.5%
11 Wild Fork ▲1 +8.4%
12 Pete's Market ▲1 +7.7%
13 Garrett Popcorn Shops ▲4 +6.9%
14 Meijer ▲1 +6.8%
15 Pete's Fresh Market - +6.7%

Store footprint

Store map

3,531 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 485 of the 3,531 stores (14%); 2,226 of the 2,419 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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