Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Gainesville, FL

Iceflower tracks 1,620 stores from 1,111 retail and consumer chains in Gainesville, FL. Wawa grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Five Star Pizza and ALDI.

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
1,111
Tracked stores
1,620
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. Wawa and Five Star Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Wawa logo Wawa ▲2 +19.3%
2 F Five Star Pizza logo Five Star Pizza ▲3 +16.5%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +13.7%
4 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲3 +13.1%
5 M Mi Apa Latin Cafe logo Mi Apa Latin Cafe ▲4 +11.0%
6 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +7.0%
7 U University of Florida logo University of Florida ▲2 +6.9%
8 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot ▲3 +6.3%
9 C Chevron logo Chevron - +5.7%
10 U United States Postal Service logo United States Postal Service ▲3 +5.3%
11 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲2 +3.6%
12 P Publix logo Publix - +3.4%
13 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +2.8%
14 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲4 +2.8%
15 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +2.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,620 tracked store locations in Gainesville, FL, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.