Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 689 stores from 347 grocery stores chains in Kentucky. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Ruler Foods.

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
347
Tracked stores
689
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. Food Lion and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +12.7%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +3.3%
3 R Ruler Foods logo Ruler Foods - +2.5%
4 F Food Giant logo Food Giant - +1.8%
5 G Gordon Food Service Store logo Gordon Food Service Store - +1.8%
6 M Meijer logo Meijer - -0.3%
7 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - -1.2%
8 D Dollar General Market logo Dollar General Market - -1.9%
9 K Kroger logo Kroger - -2.6%
10 P Price Less IGA - -3.2%
11 V ValuMarket logo ValuMarket - -4.4%
12 I IGA logo IGA - -6.0%
13 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot - -6.1%
14 1 1st Stop - -6.8%
15 H Houchens Market - -8.8%
  • Kroger
  • Meijer
  • ALDI
  • Trader Joe's
  • Publix
  • Fort Campbell Commissary
  • IGA
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

689 tracked store locations in Kentucky. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Kroger (126)
  • Meijer (16)
  • ALDI (21)
  • Trader Joe's (3)
  • Publix (4)
  • Fort Campbell Commissary (1)
  • IGA (32)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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