Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 6,441 stores from 3,422 retail chains in Maryland. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble and BoxLunch.

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
3,422
Tracked stores
6,441
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. Five Below and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲2 +19.5%
2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲3 +19.2%
3 B BoxLunch logo BoxLunch ▲9 +19.1%
4 E Express logo Express ▲14 +16.8%
5 D dd's DISCOUNTS logo dd's DISCOUNTS ▲6 +16.5%
6 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +15.5%
7 B BOSS Store logo BOSS Store ▲11 +15.3%
8 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲1 +15.0%
9 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲1 +12.0%
10 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +11.7%
11 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲3 +11.2%
12 E Express Factory Outlet logo Express Factory Outlet ▲10 +10.7%
13 T The North Face logo The North Face ▲10 +10.6%
14 R Regency Furniture ▲4 +10.4%
15 C Carter's logo Carter's ▲2 +9.8%

Store footprint

Store map

6,441 tracked store locations in Maryland, colored by category.

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