Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Columbia, MO

Iceflower tracks 76 stores from 64 grocery & convenience chains in Columbia, MO. Gerbes grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hy-Vee and Schnucks.

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
64
Tracked stores
76
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. Gerbes and Hy-Vee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Gerbes - +7.4%
2 Hy-Vee - +1.8%
3 Schnucks - -7.5%
4 ALDI - -21.3%
  • Supermarkets
  • Other grocery stores
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Liquor Store
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Food & Beverage Store
  • Discount Grocers
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

76 tracked store locations in Columbia, MO, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 15 of the 76 stores (20%); 57 of the 64 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 20% across Missouri.

  • Supermarkets (19)
  • Other grocery stores (16)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (11)
  • Liquor Store (10)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (5)
  • Food & Beverage Store (3)
  • Discount Grocers (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Hy-Vee 4
  • 2 Schnucks 3
  • 3 ALDI 3
  • 4 Gerbes 3
  • 5 Moser's Foods 2
  • 6 Dillons 2
  • 7 Prenger Foods 2
  • 8 The Honey Baked Ham Company 1
  • 9 Emporium Market 1
  • 10 Lee's Market 1
  • 11 Six-Mile Ordinary 1
  • 12 Battlefield Lavender 1
  • 13 Boone Olive Oil Co. 1
  • 14 Columbia Farmers Market 1
  • 15 Lloyd's Family Farm 1
  • 16 Eagle Liquors 1
  • 17 LSD Market 1
  • 18 Spring Mart 1
  • 19 Sai Market 1
  • 20 Shwe Market 1
  • 21 Sam's Club 1
  • 22 Moser’s Foods 1
  • 23 Clover's Natural Market 1
  • 24 C & R Market 1
  • 25 Iyumva International Market 1
  • 26 Bee Line Snack Shops 1
  • 27 Kabul Market 1
  • 28 The Clean Refill 1
  • 29 Raw Roots Turmeric 1
  • 30 Charlie's Quik-Check 1
  • 31 The Veggie Patch 1
  • 32 Essentialz North 1
  • 33 Mini Mart 1
  • 34 Steve O's 1
  • 35 Mosers 1
  • 36 Tiger Market 1
  • 37 Moser's 1
  • 38 Macadoodles 1
  • 39 Arena Liquor 1
  • 40 Natural Grocers 1
  • 41 Hitt Street Market 1
  • 42 C&R Markets 1
  • 43 Clovers Natural Market 1
  • 44 Mizzou Market 1
  • 45 A to Z 1
  • 46 Boonville Farmers Market 1
  • 47 Hong Kong Market Place 1
  • 48 Columbia Liquor 1
  • 49 Top Ten Wines 1
  • 50 Flying Tiger Convenience Store 1

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