Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 727 stores from 342 grocery & convenience chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Liquor Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dirt Cheap and Hit N Run Food Stores.

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
342
Tracked stores
727
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. Liquor Express and Dirt Cheap sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Liquor Express - +11.5%
2 D Dirt Cheap - +8.6%
3 H Hit N Run Food Stores - +3.6%
4 C Costco logo Costco - +3.3%
5 G Gordon Food Service Store logo Gordon Food Service Store ▲1 +2.6%
6 R Ruler Foods logo Ruler Foods - +1.8%
7 S Schnucks logo Schnucks - -0.5%
8 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - -1.8%
9 D Dierbergs Markets logo Dierbergs Markets ▲1 -1.8%
10 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market - -2.1%
11 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - -2.6%
12 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - -3.0%
13 R Royals Liquor - -4.3%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI - -5.3%
15 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot - -7.5%

Store footprint

Store map

727 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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