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. Brothers Market and New Pioneer Co-op sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brothers Market | - | +19.8% |
| 2 | New Pioneer Co-op | - | +7.2% |
| 3 | Sunshine Foods | - | +6.9% |
| 4 | Costco | - | +4.9% |
| 5 | Sam's Club | - | +4.1% |
| 6 | World Liquor & Tobacco | - | +2.6% |
| 7 | Natural Grocers | - | +0.5% |
| 8 | Fareway | - | -0.7% |
| 9 | Hy-Vee | - | -1.5% |
| 10 | Metro Mart | - | -2.5% |
| 11 | Price Chopper | - | -4.2% |
| 12 | Hometown Foods | - | -6.0% |
| 13 | ALDI | - | -7.6% |
| 14 | Quillin's | - | -9.6% |
- Supermarkets
- Liquor Store
- Other grocery stores
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Farm
- Butcher Shop
- Discount Grocers
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
1,225 tracked store locations in Iowa, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 368 of the 1,225 stores (30%); 733 of the 789 tracked chains have a single store here. 35% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are supermarkets, against 19% across the United States.
- Supermarkets (430)
- Liquor Store (169)
- Other grocery stores (169)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (132)
- Farm (58)
- Butcher Shop (54)
- Discount Grocers (51)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Hy-Vee 189
- 2 Fareway 118
- 3 ALDI 45
- 4 Sam's Club 10
- 5 Hometown Foods 6
- 6 Brothers Market 6
- 7 Natural Grocers 6
- 8 Sunshine Foods 5
- 9 Price Chopper 4
- 10 Costco 4
- 11 World Liquor & Tobacco 3
- 12 Jeff's Market 3
- 13 Metro Mart 3
- 14 New Pioneer Co-op 3
- 15 Quillin's 3
- 16 Smoking Joes 2
- 17 Northside Liquor 2
- 18 Mini Mart 2
- 19 Lefty's Convenience 2
- 20 Fresh Fit Meals 2
- 21 Liquor Land 2
- 22 Uptown Liquor 2
- 23 Hometown Market 2
- 24 Family Fare 2
- 25 El Mercadito 2
- 26 Canteen 2
- 27 Corner Market 2
- 28 West Forty Market 2
- 29 Cash Saver 2
- 30 Benders Foods 2
- 31 Prime Mart 2
- 32 The Creamery 2
- 33 Trader Joe's 2
- 34 Fresh Thyme Market 2
- 35 Hornbill Asian Market 2
- 36 Super Quick Liquor 2
- 37 Johncy's Liquor Store 1
- 38 Big Discount Liquor 1
- 39 Broadway Liquor 1
- 40 Monroe Foods 1
- 41 La Cosecha 1
- 42 Nelson's Meat Market 1
- 43 University Market 1
- 44 Hoffman Produce Farms 1
- 45 Jewell Market 1
- 46 Thrif-T-Mart 1
- 47 Trusty African Market 1
- 48 Waukee Liquor & Food Mart 1
- 49 Ulrich Meat Market 1
- 50 Sam's Main Street Market 1
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