Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Montana

Iceflower tracks 516 stores from 422 grocery & convenience chains in Montana. Safeway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harvest 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
422
Tracked stores
516
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. Safeway and Harvest Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Safeway logo Safeway ▲2 +10.9%
2 H Harvest Foods logo Harvest Foods - +5.9%
3 C Costco logo Costco - +3.2%
4 T Town & Country Foods ▲1 +2.6%
5 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods ▼1 +1.0%
6 R Rosauers Supermarkets logo Rosauers Supermarkets - -0.3%
7 S Smith's Food and Drug Stores logo Smith's Food and Drug Stores ▼1 -2.2%
8 W WinCo logo WinCo ▼1 -6.4%
9 N Natural Grocers logo Natural Grocers - -6.6%
10 R Reynolds Market logo Reynolds Market - -7.7%
11 A Albertsons logo Albertsons - -8.5%

Store footprint

Store map

516 tracked store locations in Montana, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Albertsons logo Albertsons 31
  • 2 C Costco logo Costco 10
  • 3 S Safeway logo Safeway 9
  • 4 T Town & Country Foods 7
  • 5 S Smith's Food and Drug Stores logo Smith's Food and Drug Stores 6
  • 6 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods 5
  • 7 R Reynolds Market logo Reynolds Market 5
  • 8 W WinCo logo WinCo 4
  • 9 R Rosauers Supermarkets logo Rosauers Supermarkets 4
  • 10 N Natural Grocers logo Natural Grocers 4
  • 11 U US Foods CHEF'STORE logo US Foods CHEF'STORE 3
  • 12 H Harvest Foods logo Harvest Foods 3
  • 13 I IGA logo IGA 2
  • 14 V Valley Foods 2
  • 15 P Picchioni's IGA 2
  • 16 S Stokes logo Stokes 2
  • 17 T Town and Country Foods 2
  • 18 D Don's Xpress Center 2
  • 19 W Western Ranch Supply 2
  • 20 T The Welcome Stop 2
  • 21 T Thriftway logo Thriftway 2
  • 22 B Bowers Market 2
  • 23 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 2
  • 24 S Stein's Market 2
  • 25 Y Yoke's Fresh Market logo Yoke's Fresh Market 2
  • 26 P Pakeezah 2
  • 27 R Rueb's Supervalu logo Rueb's Supervalu 1
  • 28 K Krisco Liquor 1
  • 29 M Mission Mountain Natural Foods 1
  • 30 T Twin Bridges Farmers Market 1
  • 31 B Big Sky Grocery 1
  • 32 E Exchange logo Exchange 1
  • 33 L Lockwood IGA 1
  • 34 F Foodworks 1
  • 35 H Heavens Peak Organic Market 1
  • 36 M Montana Marbled Meats 1
  • 37 W Worden's Market 1
  • 38 R River Market 1
  • 39 H Hamilton's Marketplace 1
  • 40 E Everyday IGA 1
  • 41 R Rocky Mountain Liquor 1
  • 42 M Mission Mountains Mercantile 1
  • 43 B Booze 'N Bait 1
  • 44 T The Farmers' Stand 1
  • 45 M Matt's Old Fashioned Butcher Shop and Deli 1
  • 46 M Montana gas N shop 1
  • 47 R Rex's Market 1
  • 48 T The Market at Sidney 1
  • 49 W West Glacier Mercantile 1
  • 50 W Western Meat and Sausage Block 1

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