Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Akron, OH

Iceflower tracks 5,786 stores from 4,203 retail and consumer chains in Akron, OH. The Valley Smoke Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hobby Lobby and Panera Bread.

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
4,203
Tracked stores
5,786
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. The Valley Smoke Shop and Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Valley Smoke Shop ▲11 +19.3%
2 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲7 +18.4%
3 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲4 +14.9%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲3 +13.9%
5 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲6 +13.7%
6 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲7 +13.6%
7 B BP logo BP ▲1 +10.9%
8 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲6 +10.0%
9 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲7 +9.9%
10 W Wing Warehouse ▲8 +9.4%
11 M Mavis Discount Tire logo Mavis Discount Tire ▲6 +7.9%
12 S Shell logo Shell - +7.6%
13 S Sunoco logo Sunoco ▲4 +7.0%
14 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲1 +6.9%
15 G GetGo logo GetGo ▲2 +6.2%

Store footprint

Store map

5,786 tracked store locations in Akron, OH, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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