Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 3,369 stores from 2,329 grocery & convenience chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Sunset Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Garden Fresh Market and Berkot's Super 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
2,329
Tracked stores
3,369
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. Sunset Foods and Garden Fresh Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sunset Foods ▲2 +13.9%
2 G Garden Fresh Market ▲3 +13.1%
3 B Berkot's Super Foods logo Berkot's Super Foods ▲2 +10.5%
4 W Wild Fork logo Wild Fork ▲1 +9.3%
5 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company ▲1 +8.8%
6 K KD Market ▲2 +8.7%
7 P Pete's Fresh Market logo Pete's Fresh Market - +8.2%
8 L LIQUOR 'n' WINE ▲1 +8.1%
9 C Cheap Cheap Liquor ▲1 +7.4%
10 M Meijer logo Meijer ▲1 +6.5%
11 F Fresh Farms International Market ▲2 +6.4%
12 P Park To Shop Supermarket - +6.3%
13 C Costco logo Costco - +5.2%
14 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market ▲1 +4.9%
15 W Woodman's Food Market logo Woodman's Food Market - +4.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,369 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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