Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Ames, IA

Iceflower tracks 44 stores from 31 grocery & convenience chains in Ames, IA.

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
31
Tracked stores
44
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 Fareway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - -0.8%
2 F Fareway logo Fareway - -2.9%
  • Supermarkets
  • Liquor Store
  • Farm
  • Other grocery stores
  • Butcher Shop
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Produce Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

44 tracked store locations in Ames, IA, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (18)
  • Liquor Store (7)
  • Farm (6)
  • Other grocery stores (4)
  • Butcher Shop (2)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (2)
  • Produce Store (2)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 F Fareway logo Fareway 9
  • 2 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee 6
  • 3 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 1
  • 4 A ALDI logo ALDI 1
  • 5 W Wheatsfield Cooperative 1
  • 6 C Center Grove Orchard logo Center Grove Orchard 1
  • 7 A AJ's Liquor 1
  • 8 G Gateway Express 1
  • 9 C Cyclone Liquors 1
  • 10 D Dollar Fresh Market logo Dollar Fresh Market 1
  • 11 S Story City Liquor & Smoke Shop 1
  • 12 P Perk Energy 1
  • 13 D Della Viti 1
  • 14 N Neighborhood Liquor Mart 1
  • 15 S Sundown Liquor & Smokes 1
  • 16 S Slim's Country Market 1
  • 17 G Gateway 1
  • 18 R Ridgeport Locker 1
  • 19 K Kwik 1
  • 20 S Storybook Orchard 1
  • 21 T The Pumpkin Patch 1
  • 22 R Rinehart's Family Farm 1
  • 23 D DairyBrink 1
  • 24 A Ames Asian Market 1
  • 25 B Berry Patch Farm 1
  • 26 S Story City Locker 1
  • 27 D DeMoss Pumpkin Farm 1
  • 28 A Ames British Foods 1
  • 29 C Clear Creek Orchard 1
  • 30 R Root to Rise Farm 1
  • 31 L Logsdon's Grocery 1

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