Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Lexington-Fayette, KY

Iceflower tracks 268 stores from 217 grocery & convenience chains in Lexington-Fayette, KY. Kroger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Meijer and ALDI.

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
217
Tracked stores
268
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. Kroger and Meijer sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Kroger - +3.8%
2 Meijer - -1.1%
3 ALDI - -2.0%
4 Liquor Barn - -11.2%
5 Supermercado Aguascalientes - -14.5%
6 Save A Lot - -16.0%
  • Liquor Store
  • Supermarkets
  • Other grocery stores
  • Farm
  • Food & Beverage Store
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Discount Grocers
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

268 tracked store locations in Lexington-Fayette, KY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 47 of the 268 stores (18%); 204 of the 217 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 13% across Kentucky.

  • Liquor Store (69)
  • Supermarkets (46)
  • Other grocery stores (36)
  • Farm (23)
  • Food & Beverage Store (16)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (15)
  • Discount Grocers (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Kroger 24
  • 2 Save A Lot 10
  • 3 Liquor Barn 6
  • 4 Supermercado Aguascalientes 4
  • 5 ALDI 3
  • 6 Meijer 3
  • 7 Crossroads IGA 2
  • 8 Bluegrass Distillers 2
  • 9 The Honey Baked Ham Company 2
  • 10 Sam's Club 2
  • 11 Total Wine & More 2
  • 12 Whole Foods Market 2
  • 13 Publix 2
  • 14 Eastland Foodmart 1
  • 15 Sabor Hispania Market 1
  • 16 Hartfield & Co. 1
  • 17 Full Circle Market 1
  • 18 The Wine Project 1
  • 19 Asian Market 1
  • 20 Cupcake Apothecary 1
  • 21 420 Liquor 1
  • 22 RD1 Spirits 1
  • 23 Fox's General Store 1
  • 24 Emo Express 1
  • 25 Southland BP 1
  • 26 Fruteria Las Veracruzanas 1
  • 27 Farm Market 1
  • 28 La Chiquita 1
  • 29 Tates Creek Farm 1
  • 30 Blue Moon Farm 1
  • 31 Fresh Bourbon 1
  • 32 Cibon 1
  • 33 European Gourmet 1
  • 34 La Unica Mexican Grocery 1
  • 35 K-N-F Corner 1
  • 36 AP Liqour 1
  • 37 Costco 1
  • 38 Anniston Liquor Mart 1
  • 39 Liquors Hub 1
  • 40 HomeGrown Lifting 1
  • 41 Woodhill Food Mart 1
  • 42 Eastland Liquor 1
  • 43 Sai Super Bazar Farmers Market 1
  • 44 Wildcat Market 1
  • 45 Anniston Mini Mart 1
  • 46 Barrel House Distilling Company 1
  • 47 Winn Avenue Market 1
  • 48 Town and Country Farms 1
  • 49 La Princesa Supermercado 1
  • 50 Bourbon 30 1

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