Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

Iceflower tracks 281 stores from 198 grocery & convenience chains in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA. Fareway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hy-Vee and Price Chopper.

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
198
Tracked stores
281
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. Fareway and Hy-Vee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Fareway logo Fareway - +0.5%
2 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - -1.3%
3 P Price Chopper logo Price Chopper - -3.8%
4 A ALDI logo ALDI - -9.1%
  • Supermarkets
  • Other grocery stores
  • Liquor Store
  • Farm
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Discount Grocers
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

281 tracked store locations in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (87)
  • Other grocery stores (42)
  • Liquor Store (42)
  • Farm (17)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (15)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (15)
  • Discount Grocers (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee 34
  • 2 F Fareway logo Fareway 28
  • 3 A ALDI logo ALDI 12
  • 4 P Price Chopper logo Price Chopper 4
  • 5 H Hometown Foods 2
  • 6 W World Liquor & Tobacco 2
  • 7 C Campbell's Nutrition 2
  • 8 F Fresh Fit Meals 2
  • 9 S Super Quick Liquor 2
  • 10 T The Creamery 2
  • 11 C Cash Saver 2
  • 12 C Costco logo Costco 2
  • 13 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 2
  • 14 A AWS's Mediterranean Market 1
  • 15 K K grocery, LLC 1
  • 16 C Chamling Food and Liquor Store 1
  • 17 J Joocy Froot Produce 1
  • 18 S Southeast Asian Grocery Llc 1
  • 19 P Pumpkinville and Cornmaze 1
  • 20 M Maytag Dairy Farms 1
  • 21 H Hope International Market 1
  • 22 K Kinna Halal Food and Grocery 1
  • 23 P Picket Fence Creamery 1
  • 24 P Prospect Park Market 1
  • 25 A AllSpice Culinarium 1
  • 26 L Lappe's Bee Supply and Honey Farm LLC 1
  • 27 H Hickory Farms Holiday Market logo Hickory Farms Holiday Market 1
  • 28 P Project LeanNation logo Project LeanNation 1
  • 29 L Lavender Life of Pleasant Hill 1
  • 30 N Newton 66 1
  • 31 S Super Stop Liqour & Wine 1
  • 32 P PepperHarrow Farm 1
  • 33 D Dallas Fresh Produce 1
  • 34 A Asian Sky Market 1
  • 35 L La Tiendita 1
  • 36 N New Asian Grocery 1
  • 37 A Afghan Halal Supermarket 1
  • 38 B Balkan Foods 1
  • 39 F Farmboy Market 1
  • 40 M Mingo Locker 1
  • 41 C Chamling Smoke And Liquor 1
  • 42 L Local Liquor 1
  • 43 E Elevate Nutrition 1
  • 44 G Gladdies 1
  • 45 D DESPENSARY 1
  • 46 J JMC Supermarket 1
  • 47 L Liquor Garden 1
  • 48 W Wills Family Orchard 1
  • 49 N New Heights Nutrition 1
  • 50 C Carmquint Food & Services Llc 1

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