Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Birmingham, AL

Iceflower tracks 818 stores from 367 retail chains in Birmingham, AL. Ross Dress for Less grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GameStop and Bealls.

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
367
Tracked stores
818
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. Ross Dress for Less and GameStop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲4 +18.4%
2 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲4 +18.0%
3 B Bealls logo Bealls ▲4 +17.9%
4 S Staples logo Staples ▲3 +15.2%
5 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲2 +15.0%
6 B Batteries Plus Bulbs - +13.9%
7 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot ▲1 +13.5%
8 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲1 +12.3%
9 A American Eagle logo American Eagle ▲2 +12.1%
10 M Mountain High Outfitters logo Mountain High Outfitters ▲1 +10.3%
11 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +9.9%
12 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +9.4%
13 O Office Depot logo Office Depot - +8.5%
14 O Old Navy logo Old Navy ▲3 +8.5%
15 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +8.0%

Store footprint

Store map

818 tracked store locations in Birmingham, AL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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