Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in District of Columbia

Iceflower tracks 487 stores from 423 retail chains in District of Columbia. lululemon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble and Rainbow Shops.

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
423
Tracked stores
487
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. lululemon and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L lululemon logo lululemon ▲3 +19.2%
2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲1 +16.8%
3 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲2 +15.7%
4 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲1 +14.8%
5 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲1 +4.8%
6 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +2.3%
7 W Walmart logo Walmart - +1.6%
8 H H&M logo H&M - +0.9%
9 T Target logo Target - -1.5%
10 D DTLR logo DTLR - -5.5%
11 M Marshalls logo Marshalls - -6.4%
12 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar ▼3 -8.4%
13 P Petco logo Petco - -10.5%
14 O Old Navy logo Old Navy ▲1 -18.3%
15 N New Balance logo New Balance ▲1 -24.9%

Store footprint

Store map

487 tracked store locations in District of Columbia, colored by category.

  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (37)
  • Bookstore (31)
  • Other clothing stores (29)
  • Women's Contemporary (29)
  • Flower Shop (24)
  • Specialty Store (21)
  • Gift Shop (20)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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