Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 1,129 stores from 238 grocery & convenience chains in Minnesota. Sunshine Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fresh Thyme Market and Fareway.

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
238
Tracked stores
1,129
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. Sunshine Foods and Fresh Thyme Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sunshine Foods logo Sunshine Foods - +14.6%
2 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market ▲1 +11.5%
3 F Fareway logo Fareway ▲2 +10.5%
4 C Coborn's Liquor logo Coborn's Liquor ▲2 +8.7%
5 F Festival Foods logo Festival Foods ▲1 +8.2%
6 C Coborn's logo Coborn's - +7.6%
7 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket ▲1 +7.2%
8 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - +5.1%
9 C Cash Wise Liquor logo Cash Wise Liquor ▲1 +4.5%
10 C Costco logo Costco - +2.7%
11 K Kwik Trip logo Kwik Trip - +2.2%
12 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods ▼1 +1.2%
13 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +1.1%
14 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +0.9%
15 A ALDI logo ALDI - +0.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,129 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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