Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Lincoln, NE

Iceflower tracks 89 stores from 66 grocery & convenience chains in Lincoln, NE. Stop N Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Super C 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
66
Tracked stores
89
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. Stop N Shop and Super C sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Stop N Shop - +15.2%
2 Super C - +5.8%
3 ALDI - +3.0%
4 Super Saver - -5.2%
5 Russ's Market - -6.9%
6 Hy-Vee - -8.9%
  • Supermarkets
  • Liquor Store
  • Other grocery stores
  • Discount Grocers
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Butcher Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

89 tracked store locations in Lincoln, NE, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 24 of the 89 stores (27%); 58 of the 66 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are discount grocers, against 4% across Nebraska.

  • Supermarkets (24)
  • Liquor Store (15)
  • Other grocery stores (15)
  • Discount Grocers (12)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (4)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (4)
  • Butcher Shop (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Russ's Market 7
  • 2 Hy-Vee 6
  • 3 Super Saver 5
  • 4 ALDI 3
  • 5 Super C 3
  • 6 Stop N Shop 3
  • 7 Sam's Club 2
  • 8 C Station 2
  • 9 Lincoln Mediterranean Market 1
  • 10 Rojo's Goods 1
  • 11 Wall to Wall Wine and Spirits 1
  • 12 Amparito's Market 1
  • 13 Meier's Cork 'n Bottle 1
  • 14 Jimmy's Liquor & Tobacco 1
  • 15 Carniceria el Pueblito 1
  • 16 Discount City 1
  • 17 Kong Liquor 1
  • 18 Smoking Gun Jerky 1
  • 19 Moran's Liquor Works 1
  • 20 Blue Catfish Corner Store 1
  • 21 Little Saigon Asian Grocery Store 1
  • 22 South Street Liquor 1
  • 23 Surf and Turf Food Co 1
  • 24 City Spirits 1
  • 25 Venue at Home 1
  • 26 Simply A-Maize-N Popcorn 1
  • 27 Tamayta 1
  • 28 Stop 'N Shop Lincoln 1
  • 29 Colby Ridge Popcorn 1
  • 30 Sapp Brothers Travel Center 1
  • 31 Sideshow Spirits 1
  • 32 Sunday Farmers' Market at College View 1
  • 33 Pac N Save Grocery 1
  • 34 Topper Popper 1
  • 35 The Dead Zone Convenience Store 1
  • 36 Fresh N' Save Market 1
  • 37 Mai's Market 1
  • 38 Costco 1
  • 39 Trader Joe's 1
  • 40 Whole Foods Market 1
  • 41 Total Wine & More 1
  • 42 Natural Grocers 1
  • 43 Canopy Street Market 1
  • 44 Leon's Gourmet Grocer 1
  • 45 Open Harvest Co-op Grocery 1
  • 46 Wine, Beer, & Spirits 1
  • 47 The Still 1
  • 48 Fareway 1
  • 49 Lobo City Mex Supermarket 1
  • 50 The Mercato 1

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