Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 16,972 stores from 8,252 retail and consumer chains in Kentucky. Menards grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Little Caesars and Hobby Lobby.

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
8,252
Tracked stores
16,972
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. Menards and Little Caesars sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Menards logo Menards ▲7 +17.3%
2 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲12 +16.4%
3 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲11 +16.3%
4 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +15.8%
5 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲6 +15.3%
6 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲13 +14.9%
7 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲13 +13.3%
8 C Cinemark logo Cinemark ▲10 +13.0%
9 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲7 +12.4%
10 C Casey's logo Casey's ▲8 +12.0%
11 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲7 +11.3%
12 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲3 +10.6%
13 T Toyota ▲9 +10.1%
14 M Marathon logo Marathon ▲1 +9.8%
15 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲8 +9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

16,972 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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