Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery Stores in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 394 stores from 120 grocery stores chains in Minnesota. Fresh Thyme Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fareway and Festival Foods.

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
120
Tracked stores
394
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. Fresh Thyme Market and Fareway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market ▲1 +13.4%
2 F Fareway logo Fareway - +13.0%
3 F Festival Foods logo Festival Foods - +10.5%
4 C Coborn's logo Coborn's - +9.4%
5 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - +6.5%
6 C Cash Wise Liquor logo Cash Wise Liquor - +6.2%
7 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket - +5.4%
8 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +3.2%
9 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods - +2.5%
10 A ALDI logo ALDI - +2.2%
11 L Lakewinds Food Co-op - +1.3%
12 S Sunshine Foods logo Sunshine Foods - +1.1%
13 M Mackenthun's Fine Foods ▲1 +0.9%
14 J Jerry's Foods ▼1 -2.6%
15 C Cub logo Cub - -2.9%
  • Cub
  • ALDI
  • Lunds & Byerlys
  • Hy-Vee
  • Trader Joe's
  • Kowalski's Market
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

394 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cub (74)
  • ALDI (67)
  • Lunds & Byerlys (21)
  • Hy-Vee (30)
  • Trader Joe's (10)
  • Kowalski's Market (6)
  • Whole Foods Market (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Cub logo Cub 74
  • 2 A ALDI logo ALDI 67
  • 3 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee 30
  • 4 L Lunds & Byerlys logo Lunds & Byerlys 21
  • 5 C Cash Wise Liquor logo Cash Wise Liquor 12
  • 6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 10
  • 7 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods 10
  • 8 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market 8
  • 9 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 7
  • 10 C Coborn's logo Coborn's 7
  • 11 K Kowalski's Market logo Kowalski's Market 6
  • 12 F Festival Foods logo Festival Foods 6
  • 13 F Fareway logo Fareway 5
  • 14 T Teal's Market 4
  • 15 S Sunshine Foods logo Sunshine Foods 4
  • 16 S Super One Foods logo Super One Foods 4
  • 17 M Mackenthun's Fine Foods 3
  • 18 L Lakewinds Food Co-op 3
  • 19 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket 3
  • 20 J Jerry's Foods 3
  • 21 S Supermercado Lomabonita 2
  • 22 O Oxendale's Market 2
  • 23 T The Marketplace 2
  • 24 C Central Market logo Central Market 2
  • 25 M Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op 2
  • 26 S Sun Foods 2
  • 27 H Hornbacher's logo Hornbacher's 2
  • 28 S Simonson Market 1
  • 29 Q Quillin's 1
  • 30 Z Z Market 1
  • 31 F Food Pride Market 1
  • 32 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop 1
  • 33 Z Zups Big Dollar Foods 1
  • 34 I India Bazaar logo India Bazaar 1
  • 35 F Family Fresh Market 1
  • 36 P Pelican Bay Foods 1
  • 37 K Korner Store 1
  • 38 D Downtown Market & Deli 1
  • 39 M Maple Square Fuel & Wash 1
  • 40 P Pam's Corner 1
  • 41 M Mo's Tropical Market 1
  • 42 B Bennett's Food Center 1
  • 43 T The Market at Redwood Falls 1
  • 44 S Sun World Supermarket 1
  • 45 B Bluff Country Co-op 1
  • 46 L Larry's Super Market 1
  • 47 K Knowlan's Fresh Foods 1
  • 48 E Ernies Food Market 1
  • 49 G Good Earth 1
  • 50 R Rushford IGA 1

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