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. Safeway and Costco sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Safeway | ▲2 | +11.3% |
| 2 | Costco | - | +2.6% |
| 3 | Town & Country | - | +1.3% |
| 4 | Super 1 Foods | - | +0.7% |
| 5 | Rosauers Supermarkets | - | +0.1% |
| 6 | Natural Grocers | - | -0.2% |
| 7 | Smith's Food and Drug Stores | ▼1 | -2.0% |
| 8 | Harvest Foods | - | -2.0% |
| 9 | WinCo | ▼1 | -6.5% |
| 10 | Albertsons | - | -8.8% |
| 11 | Reynolds Market | - | -10.4% |
- Supermarkets
- Other grocery stores
- Liquor Store
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Butcher Shop
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Farm
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
526 tracked store locations in Montana, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 64 of the 526 stores (12%); 401 of the 429 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are butcher shops, against 3% across the United States.
- Supermarkets (138)
- Other grocery stores (120)
- Liquor Store (77)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (59)
- Butcher Shop (27)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (23)
- Farm (23)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Albertsons 31
- 2 Costco 10
- 3 Safeway 9
- 4 Super 1 Foods 7
- 5 Town & Country 7
- 6 Smith's Food and Drug Stores 6
- 7 Reynolds Market 5
- 8 WinCo 4
- 9 Rosauers Supermarkets 4
- 10 Natural Grocers 4
- 11 US Foods CHEF'STORE 3
- 12 Harvest Foods 3
- 13 Thriftway 2
- 14 Valley Foods 2
- 15 Bottles & Shots 2
- 16 IGA 2
- 17 Town and Country Foods 2
- 18 The Welcome Stop 2
- 19 Sam's Club 2
- 20 Picchioni's IGA 2
- 21 Don's Xpress Center 2
- 22 Stein's Market 2
- 23 Yoke's Fresh Market 2
- 24 Bowers Market 2
- 25 Western Ranch Supply 2
- 26 Foodworks 1
- 27 Lockwood IGA 1
- 28 The Heron Store & Cafe 1
- 29 Fic's Kwik Six 1
- 30 Big Sky Grocery 1
- 31 Krisco Liquor 1
- 32 River Market 1
- 33 Exchange 1
- 34 Stillwater Market 1
- 35 Deemo's Meats 1
- 36 Montana Marbled Meats 1
- 37 Worden's Market 1
- 38 Lolo Liquor and Wine 1
- 39 Everyday IGA 1
- 40 Mission Mountains Mercantile 1
- 41 Rocky Mountain Liquor Warehouse 1
- 42 Lower Valley Processing Company 1
- 43 Cheyenne Dept 2 1
- 44 The Farmers' Stand 1
- 45 Rueb's Supervalu 1
- 46 West Glacier Mercantile 1
- 47 Hamilton Packing Co 1
- 48 Real Food Market & Grill 1
- 49 Eureka Liquor Store 1
- 50 Old Salt Meat Company 1
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