Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

Iceflower tracks 287 stores from 201 grocery & convenience chains in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA. Fareway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hy-Vee and Price Chopper.

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
201
Tracked stores
287
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. Fareway and Hy-Vee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Fareway - +0.6%
2 Hy-Vee - -1.8%
3 Price Chopper - -3.4%
4 ALDI - -8.5%
  • Supermarkets
  • Liquor Store
  • Other grocery stores
  • Farm
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Discount Grocers
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

287 tracked store locations in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 83 of the 287 stores (29%); 188 of the 201 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 11% across Iowa.

  • Supermarkets (90)
  • Liquor Store (43)
  • Other grocery stores (42)
  • Farm (17)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (16)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (15)
  • Discount Grocers (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Hy-Vee 37
  • 2 Fareway 28
  • 3 ALDI 12
  • 4 Price Chopper 4
  • 5 The Creamery 2
  • 6 Hometown Foods 2
  • 7 World Liquor & Tobacco 2
  • 8 Campbell's Nutrition 2
  • 9 Fresh Fit Meals 2
  • 10 Super Quick Liquor 2
  • 11 Costco 2
  • 12 Cash Saver 2
  • 13 Sam's Club 2
  • 14 Chamling Food and Liquor Store 1
  • 15 Joocy Froot Produce 1
  • 16 Southeast Asian Grocery Llc 1
  • 17 AllSpice Culinarium 1
  • 18 Picket Fence Creamery 1
  • 19 Pumpkinville and Cornmaze 1
  • 20 Hope International Market 1
  • 21 Kinna Halal Food and Grocery 1
  • 22 West Bank 1
  • 23 Prospect Park Market 1
  • 24 La Tiendita 1
  • 25 Indy 66 1
  • 26 Hickory Farms Holiday Market 1
  • 27 Project LeanNation 1
  • 28 Maytag Dairy Farms 1
  • 29 Super Stop Liqour & Wine 1
  • 30 Dallas Fresh Produce 1
  • 31 PepperHarrow Farm 1
  • 32 Asian Sky Market 1
  • 33 New Asian Grocery 1
  • 34 Newton 66 1
  • 35 Lavender Life of Pleasant Hill 1
  • 36 The Cheese Shop 1
  • 37 Balkan Foods 1
  • 38 Afghan Halal Supermarket 1
  • 39 Farmboy Market 1
  • 40 Mingo Locker 1
  • 41 Chamling Smoke And Liquor 1
  • 42 Local Liquor 1
  • 43 Elevate Nutrition 1
  • 44 DESPENSARY 1
  • 45 JMC Supermarket 1
  • 46 Gladdies 1
  • 47 New Heights Nutrition 1
  • 48 Carmquint Food & Services Llc 1
  • 49 Wills Family Orchard 1
  • 50 Liquor Garden 1

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