Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 3,437 stores from 1,949 grocery & convenience chains in Illinois. Gordon Food Service Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Save A Lot and Tony's Fresh Market.

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
1,949
Tracked stores
3,437
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. Gordon Food Service Store and Save A Lot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Gordon Food Service Store logo Gordon Food Service Store ▲4 +19.5%
2 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot ▲7 +17.3%
3 T Tony's Fresh Market logo Tony's Fresh Market ▲2 +16.4%
4 A Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets logo Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets ▲1 +15.5%
5 B Beck's ▲4 +13.9%
6 P Pete's Market logo Pete's Market - +13.8%
7 P Pete's Fresh Market logo Pete's Fresh Market ▲2 +11.6%
8 F Friar Tuck Beverage ▲5 +10.0%
9 H Heinen's logo Heinen's - +8.0%
10 J Jack Flash logo Jack Flash ▲1 +7.0%
11 S Shop & Save Market logo Shop & Save Market ▲1 +6.6%
12 S Sullivan's Foods ▲1 +6.2%
13 S Sunset Foods ▲1 +6.1%
14 G Garden Fresh Market ▲1 +4.9%
15 S Schnucks logo Schnucks ▲1 +3.5%

Store footprint

Store map

3,437 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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