Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Montana

Iceflower tracks 328 stores from 193 grocery & convenience chains in Montana. Natural Grocers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Town & Country Foods and Costco.

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
193
Tracked stores
328
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. Natural Grocers and Town & Country Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 N Natural Grocers logo Natural Grocers ▲1 +19.6%
2 T Town & Country Foods ▲2 +10.9%
3 C Costco logo Costco - +4.0%
4 S Smith's Food and Drug Stores logo Smith's Food and Drug Stores ▲1 +0.6%
5 S Safeway logo Safeway - +0.2%
6 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods ▼1 +0.1%
7 A Albertsons logo Albertsons - -0.8%
8 H Harvest Foods logo Harvest Foods - -0.8%
9 W WinCo logo WinCo - -6.2%
10 R Rosauers Supermarkets logo Rosauers Supermarkets - -10.4%
11 H Holiday Stationstores logo Holiday Stationstores ▼3 -18.3%
12 R Reynolds Market logo Reynolds Market - -19.1%
13 T Thriftway Super Stops - -29.7%
14 L Loaf 'N Jug logo Loaf 'N Jug - -100.0%

Store footprint

Store map

328 tracked store locations in Montana, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Albertsons logo Albertsons 30
  • 2 H Holiday Stationstores logo Holiday Stationstores 22
  • 3 C Circle K logo Circle K 14
  • 4 T Town Pump logo Town Pump 13
  • 5 C Costco logo Costco 10
  • 6 S Safeway logo Safeway 9
  • 7 S Smith's Food and Drug Stores logo Smith's Food and Drug Stores 6
  • 8 T Town & Country Foods 6
  • 9 R Reynolds Market logo Reynolds Market 5
  • 10 W WinCo logo WinCo 4
  • 11 R Rosauers Supermarkets logo Rosauers Supermarkets 4
  • 12 N Natural Grocers logo Natural Grocers 4
  • 13 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods 4
  • 14 L Loaf 'N Jug logo Loaf 'N Jug 3
  • 15 T Thriftway Super Stops 3
  • 16 H Harvest Foods logo Harvest Foods 3
  • 17 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 2
  • 18 B Bowers Market 2
  • 19 G Gas N Shop 2
  • 20 V Valley Foods 2
  • 21 T Thriftway Super Stop 2
  • 22 S Stokes 2
  • 23 P Picchioni's IGA 2
  • 24 T Town and Country Foods 2
  • 25 T Thriftway logo Thriftway 2
  • 26 Y Yoke's Fresh Market logo Yoke's Fresh Market 2
  • 27 S Stein's Market 2
  • 28 T The Spot 1
  • 29 W Withey's Health Foods 1
  • 30 E E-Z Mart logo E-Z Mart 1
  • 31 C Crow Nation Express 1
  • 32 P Project Merc Food Farm 1
  • 33 E East Main Liquor Store 1
  • 34 E Empire Foods 1
  • 35 L Lolo Liquor and Wine 1
  • 36 S Super D 1
  • 37 V Vandyke's Super Market 1
  • 38 P Poly Food Basket 1
  • 39 T Twin Bridges Farmers Market 1
  • 40 B Bozeman Spirits Distillery 1
  • 41 W Whitefish Liquor Store 1
  • 42 M Matt's Old Fashioned Butcher Shop and Deli 1
  • 43 B Big Sky Grocery 1
  • 44 E Everyday IGA 1
  • 45 M Midtown Market 1
  • 46 G Glacier Park Trading Co 1
  • 47 Z Zootown Super Stop 1
  • 48 E Elliston Country Store 1
  • 49 B BZN Market 1
  • 50 R Rocky Mountain Liquor 1

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