Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Knoxville, TN

Iceflower tracks 1,396 stores from 896 retail chains in Knoxville, TN. Smoke Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Kay Jewelers.

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
896
Tracked stores
1,396
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. Smoke Shop and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Smoke Shop ▲3 +18.0%
2 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲1 +17.7%
3 K Kay Jewelers logo Kay Jewelers ▲4 +17.5%
4 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +16.8%
5 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲3 +16.6%
6 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +15.7%
7 A Altar'd State logo Altar'd State ▲3 +13.6%
8 K KARM Stores - +10.8%
9 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +9.4%
10 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods - +9.0%
11 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲1 +8.5%
12 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲2 +8.1%
13 A Agri Feed Pet Supply - +7.2%
14 J JCPenney logo JCPenney ▲1 +6.9%
15 J Journeys logo Journeys ▲1 +6.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,396 tracked store locations in Knoxville, TN, colored by category.

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