Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 540 stores from 161 retail chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Michaels and HomeGoods.

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
161
Tracked stores
540
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. Hobby Lobby and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲2 +19.7%
2 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲3 +18.5%
3 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲2 +14.5%
4 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲2 +13.7%
5 P Pet Supplies Plus logo Pet Supplies Plus - +13.3%
6 H Half Price Books logo Half Price Books - +12.7%
7 M Menards logo Menards - +10.4%
8 P Petco logo Petco ▲2 +10.0%
9 S Sierra logo Sierra ▲2 +8.1%
10 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲1 +7.9%
11 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲2 +6.9%
12 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement ▲1 +5.5%
13 K Kohl's logo Kohl's ▲2 +5.1%
14 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods ▲2 +4.7%
15 W Walmart logo Walmart - +3.8%

Store footprint

Store map

540 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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