Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Birmingham, AL

Iceflower tracks 1,628 stores from 960 retail chains in Birmingham, AL. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of EZPAWN and Dollar General.

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
960
Tracked stores
1,628
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. Hobby Lobby and EZPAWN sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲2 +19.0%
2 E EZPAWN logo EZPAWN ▲3 +16.2%
3 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲2 +15.7%
4 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▼1 +13.5%
5 B Bealls logo Bealls ▲3 +13.3%
6 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +11.7%
7 F Foot Locker logo Foot Locker ▲4 +11.6%
8 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +11.6%
9 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲2 +10.3%
10 C Cato Fashions logo Cato Fashions ▲2 +8.8%
11 K Kay Jewelers logo Kay Jewelers ▲2 +8.6%
12 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +8.3%
13 S Shoe Dept. logo Shoe Dept. - +8.1%
14 V Vape Loft logo Vape Loft ▲2 +7.1%
15 S Standard Furniture & Mattress ▲1 +6.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,628 tracked store locations in Birmingham, AL, colored by category.

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