Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 2,319 stores from 1,719 grocery & convenience chains in Kentucky. The Honey Baked Ham Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kroger and AAFES.

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
1,719
Tracked stores
2,319
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. The Honey Baked Ham Company and Kroger sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company ▲5 +18.8%
2 K Kroger logo Kroger - +8.0%
3 A AAFES logo AAFES ▲1 +5.3%
4 L Liquor Barn logo Liquor Barn ▲2 -3.0%
5 F Food Giant logo Food Giant ▲2 -3.4%
6 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market ▲1 -3.8%
7 S Stop N Go ▲2 -4.7%
8 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - -5.7%
9 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - -6.4%
10 Q Quality Quick ▲2 -6.5%
11 C Costco logo Costco - -6.9%
12 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - -7.8%
13 P Paul's Fruit Market - -7.9%
14 H Hometown Liquor ▲2 -7.9%
15 L Liquor Outlet ▲2 -8.0%

Store footprint

Store map

2,319 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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