Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Ames, IA

Iceflower tracks 378 stores from 282 retail and consumer chains in Ames, IA. Walmart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Casey's and Jimmy John's.

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
282
Tracked stores
378
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Walmart and Casey's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Walmart logo Walmart - +18.4%
2 C Casey's logo Casey's - +4.6%
3 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's - +1.9%
4 F Fareway logo Fareway ▲1 -0.3%
5 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.5%
6 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - -1.0%
7 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - -6.4%
8 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -6.6%
9 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee ▲1 -7.3%
10 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee - -7.4%
11 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -10.9%
12 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -12.7%
13 S Subway logo Subway - -12.7%
14 K Kum & Go logo Kum & Go ▼2 -41.8%

Store footprint

Store map

378 tracked store locations in Ames, IA, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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