Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 45,775 stores from 26,870 retail and consumer chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. The Cheesecake Factory grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Pitstop Express and Coach.

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
26,870
Tracked stores
45,775
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. The Cheesecake Factory and Pitstop Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Cheesecake Factory logo The Cheesecake Factory ▲18 +19.4%
2 P Pitstop Express ▲21 +18.8%
3 C Coach logo Coach ▲19 +18.2%
4 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲18 +17.8%
5 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven ▲6 +17.5%
6 C Checkpoint ▲16 +17.3%
7 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲8 +16.1%
8 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲13 +15.0%
9 C CarMax logo CarMax ▲10 +15.0%
10 B Buc-ee's logo Buc-ee's ▲1 +14.9%
11 E EZPAWN logo EZPAWN ▲17 +14.9%
12 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲15 +13.2%
13 M Memorial Hermann logo Memorial Hermann ▲10 +12.8%
14 K Kroger logo Kroger - +11.4%
15 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA ▲2 +11.3%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 45,775 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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