Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 394 stores from 122 grocery stores 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
122
Tracked stores
394
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. 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 - +16.0%
2 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market ▲1 +12.8%
3 F Fareway logo Fareway - +11.8%
4 F Festival Foods logo Festival Foods - +9.5%
5 C Coborn's logo Coborn's - +8.9%
6 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket - +8.5%
7 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee - +6.4%
8 C Cash Wise Liquor logo Cash Wise Liquor - +5.7%
9 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods - +2.4%
10 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +2.3%
11 A ALDI logo ALDI - +1.5%
12 L Lakewinds Food Co-op - +1.4%
13 M Mackenthun's Fine Foods ▲1 +0.1%
14 C Cub logo Cub - -2.1%
15 K Kowalski's Market logo Kowalski's Market - -2.4%
  • Cub
  • ALDI
  • Lunds & Byerlys
  • Hy-Vee
  • Trader Joe's
  • Kowalski's Market
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

394 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cub (73)
  • ALDI (67)
  • Lunds & Byerlys (21)
  • Hy-Vee (30)
  • Trader Joe's (10)
  • Kowalski's Market (7)
  • Whole Foods Market (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Cub logo Cub 73
  • 2 A ALDI logo ALDI 67
  • 3 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee 30
  • 4 L Lunds & Byerlys logo Lunds & Byerlys 21
  • 5 C Cash Wise Liquor logo Cash Wise Liquor 11
  • 6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 10
  • 7 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods 10
  • 8 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market 8
  • 9 K Kowalski's Market logo Kowalski's Market 7
  • 10 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 7
  • 11 C Coborn's logo Coborn's 7
  • 12 F Festival Foods logo Festival Foods 6
  • 13 T Teal's Market 4
  • 14 F Fareway logo Fareway 4
  • 15 S Super One Foods logo Super One Foods 4
  • 16 M Mackenthun's Fine Foods 3
  • 17 L Lakewinds Food Co-op 3
  • 18 S Sunshine Foods logo Sunshine Foods 3
  • 19 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket 3
  • 20 J Jerry's Foods 3
  • 21 S Supermercado Lomabonita 2
  • 22 T The Marketplace 2
  • 23 S Super USA 2
  • 24 C Central Market logo Central Market 2
  • 25 M Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op 2
  • 26 S Sun Foods 2
  • 27 H Hornbacher's logo Hornbacher's 2
  • 28 O Oxendale's Market 2
  • 29 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop 1
  • 30 H Hagberg's Country Market 1
  • 31 F Food Pride Market 1
  • 32 F Family Fresh Market 1
  • 33 P Pam's Corner 1
  • 34 P Pelican Bay Foods 1
  • 35 Z Z Market 1
  • 36 S Simonson Market 1
  • 37 H Hugos 1
  • 38 M Maple Square Fuel & Wash 1
  • 39 K Korner Store 1
  • 40 D Downtown Market & Deli 1
  • 41 S Sun World Supermarket 1
  • 42 R Rushford IGA 1
  • 43 M Mo's Tropical Market 1
  • 44 T The Market at Redwood Falls 1
  • 45 B Bennett's Food Center 1
  • 46 B Bluff Country Co-op 1
  • 47 L Larry's Super Market 1
  • 48 G Genes Foods 1
  • 49 K Knowlan's Fresh Foods 1
  • 50 E Ernies Food Market 1

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