Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Iowa City, IA

Iceflower tracks 52 stores from 33 grocery & convenience chains in Iowa City, IA. Kwik Trip grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Hy-Vee.

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
33
Tracked stores
52
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. Kwik Trip and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kwik Trip logo Kwik Trip - +10.5%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +4.7%
3 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - -5.4%
4 F Fareway logo Fareway - -7.1%
5 T The Depot Express - -10.2%
  • Grocery Store
  • Liquor Store
  • Convenience Store
  • Butcher Shop
  • Warehouse Club
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

52 tracked store locations in Iowa City, IA, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (28)
  • Liquor Store (11)
  • Convenience Store (10)
  • Butcher Shop (2)
  • Warehouse Club (1)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee 8
  • 2 F Fareway logo Fareway 5
  • 3 K Kwik Trip logo Kwik Trip 4
  • 4 T The Depot Express 4
  • 5 A ALDI logo ALDI 3
  • 6 S SouthSide Liquor & Tobacco 1
  • 7 W World Food Market 1
  • 8 I Iowa City Halal Food and Grocery 1
  • 9 B Bootleggin' Barzini's 1
  • 10 B Bud's Custom Meats 1
  • 11 C City Liquor 1
  • 12 H Hometown Spirits 1
  • 13 S Starlight Market 1
  • 14 L Liberty View Wine and Spirits 1
  • 15 T Thoma's Meat Market 1
  • 16 J JW's Foods 1
  • 17 F Freeman Foods 1
  • 18 T Top Shelf Liquor 1
  • 19 M Mayflower Market 1
  • 20 S Sam's Main Street Market 1
  • 21 K Keystone Liquor & Wine 1
  • 22 J Johncy's Liquor Store 1
  • 23 H Hawks Liquor & Tobacco 1
  • 24 T The Station II 1
  • 25 H Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh logo Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh 1
  • 26 N Natural Grocers logo Natural Grocers 1
  • 27 J Johns Grocery 1
  • 28 T The Crown Liquor & Smoke 1
  • 29 L Liquor Downtown 1
  • 30 N New Pioneer Co-op 1
  • 31 B Bread Garden Market 1
  • 32 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 1
  • 33 C Costco logo Costco 1

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