Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Alabama

Iceflower tracks 39,566 stores from 23,580 retail and consumer chains in Alabama. American Family Care grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Shell.

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
23,580
Tracked stores
39,566
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. American Family Care and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A American Family Care logo American Family Care ▲25 +19.5%
2 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲22 +19.4%
3 S Shell logo Shell ▲1 +18.6%
4 R Raceway logo Raceway ▲6 +18.3%
5 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲19 +17.8%
6 E Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers logo Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers ▲16 +17.4%
7 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly ▲2 +16.7%
8 G Guthrie's logo Guthrie's ▲23 +15.7%
9 C Chevron logo Chevron - +14.5%
10 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA - +13.3%
11 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲11 +12.9%
12 F Foot Locker logo Foot Locker ▲15 +12.4%
13 G Great Clips logo Great Clips ▲16 +11.8%
14 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲9 +11.7%
15 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲4 +11.4%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 39,566 tracked store locations in Alabama, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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