Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 728 stores from 167 grocery & convenience chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Hy-Vee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fresh Thyme Market and Coborn's Liquor.

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
167
Tracked stores
728
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. Hy-Vee and Fresh Thyme Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee ▲2 +11.8%
2 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market - +10.5%
3 C Coborn's Liquor logo Coborn's Liquor - +9.0%
4 K Kwik Trip logo Kwik Trip - +6.5%
5 C Coborn's logo Coborn's - +4.5%
6 C Costco logo Costco - +2.9%
7 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +1.8%
8 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club ▲1 +0.8%
9 L Lakewinds Food Co-op ▲1 +0.1%
10 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 -1.1%
11 T Top Ten Liquors logo Top Ten Liquors ▲1 -2.2%
12 J Jerry's Foods - -3.8%
13 K Kowalski's Market logo Kowalski's Market - -4.3%
14 C Cub logo Cub - -4.4%
15 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -7.3%

Store footprint

Store map

728 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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