Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 1,771 stores from 777 retail chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GameStop and Sherwin-Williams.

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
777
Tracked stores
1,771
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Five Below and GameStop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲3 +19.1%
2 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲6 +18.4%
3 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲7 +16.7%
4 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲3 +16.4%
5 O Once Upon A Child logo Once Upon A Child ▲9 +15.1%
6 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲3 +15.0%
7 M My Pet Store and More ▲4 +14.7%
8 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲1 +13.3%
9 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲3 +12.3%
10 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲1 +12.3%
11 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +12.0%
12 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲7 +11.6%
13 M Michaels logo Michaels - +9.4%
14 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale ▲6 +9.1%
15 D Davidus Cigars logo Davidus Cigars ▲5 +9.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,771 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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