Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 44,580 stores from 29,006 retail and consumer chains in Maryland. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BJ's Gas and Five Below.

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
29,006
Tracked stores
44,580
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. Hobby Lobby and BJ's Gas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲5 +19.3%
2 B BJ's Gas logo BJ's Gas ▲11 +19.3%
3 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲6 +18.4%
4 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲16 +18.1%
5 S Sheetz logo Sheetz ▲3 +17.4%
6 M Maryland MVA logo Maryland MVA ▲16 +15.4%
7 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲3 +14.5%
8 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲6 +14.0%
9 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More ▲9 +14.0%
10 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲5 +12.6%
11 M MGM National Harbor logo MGM National Harbor ▲6 +12.4%
12 W Weis Markets logo Weis Markets ▲1 +11.3%
13 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲5 +11.0%
14 R Royal Farms logo Royal Farms ▲1 +11.0%
15 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage ▲6 +10.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 44,580 tracked store locations in Maryland, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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