Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 1,640 stores from 770 grocery stores 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
770
Tracked stores
1,640
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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 +19.0%
2 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot ▲4 +16.8%
3 T Tony's Fresh Market logo Tony's Fresh Market ▲1 +15.9%
4 A Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets logo Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets ▲1 +15.0%
5 P Pete's Market logo Pete's Market - +13.4%
6 P Pete's Fresh Market logo Pete's Fresh Market ▲2 +11.2%
7 H Heinen's logo Heinen's - +7.5%
8 S Shop & Save Market logo Shop & Save Market ▲1 +6.2%
9 S Sullivan's Foods - +5.7%
10 S Sunset Foods ▲1 +5.7%
11 F Fareway logo Fareway - +4.8%
12 G Garden Fresh Market ▲1 +4.4%
13 S Schnucks logo Schnucks - +3.0%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI - +2.8%
15 C Carnicerias Jimenez ▲1 +2.0%
  • Jewel-Osco
  • ALDI
  • Meijer
  • Mariano's
  • Woodman's Food Market
  • Trader Joe's
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,640 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Jewel-Osco (188)
  • ALDI (162)
  • Meijer (30)
  • Mariano's (46)
  • Woodman's Food Market (7)
  • Trader Joe's (23)
  • Whole Foods Market (31)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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