Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Iowa City, IA

Iceflower tracks 535 stores from 391 retail and consumer chains in Iowa City, IA. Kwik Trip grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Scooter's Coffee.

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
391
Tracked stores
535
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Kwik Trip and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kwik Trip logo Kwik Trip ▲1 +15.9%
2 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +9.1%
3 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee - +9.1%
4 A ALDI logo ALDI - +8.3%
5 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲2 +7.6%
6 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +4.1%
7 C Casey's logo Casey's - +2.9%
8 B Bruegger's Bagels logo Bruegger's Bagels - +2.6%
9 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲1 +2.0%
10 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - +0.2%
11 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▼1 -0.6%
12 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - -2.2%
13 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's ▼1 -2.5%
14 W Walgreens logo Walgreens - -2.7%
15 W Walmart logo Walmart - -3.3%

Store footprint

Store map

535 tracked store locations in Iowa City, IA, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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