Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 3,452 stores from 1,957 grocery & convenience chains in Illinois. Tony's Fresh Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Gordon Food Service Store and Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets.

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
1,957
Tracked stores
3,452
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. Tony's Fresh Market and Gordon Food Service Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tony's Fresh Market logo Tony's Fresh Market ▲2 +16.6%
2 G Gordon Food Service Store logo Gordon Food Service Store ▲3 +15.9%
3 A Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets logo Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets ▲1 +15.5%
4 P Pete's Market logo Pete's Market - +14.1%
5 B Beck's ▲3 +13.4%
6 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot ▲3 +12.7%
7 P Pete's Fresh Market logo Pete's Fresh Market ▲2 +11.7%
8 F Friar Tuck Beverage ▲5 +10.3%
9 H Heinen's logo Heinen's ▲1 +8.5%
10 S Shop & Save Market logo Shop & Save Market ▲1 +7.0%
11 J Jack Flash logo Jack Flash ▲2 +6.8%
12 S Sunset Foods ▲2 +6.6%
13 S Sullivan's Foods ▲1 +6.3%
14 G Garden Fresh Market - +4.7%
15 A Ayerco logo Ayerco ▲4 +3.7%

Store footprint

Store map

3,452 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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