Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 3,130 stores from 2,028 retail chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of dd's DISCOUNTS and La-Z-Boy.

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
2,028
Tracked stores
3,130
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. Dollar Tree and dd's DISCOUNTS sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲3 +18.0%
2 D dd's DISCOUNTS logo dd's DISCOUNTS ▲4 +17.6%
3 L La-Z-Boy logo La-Z-Boy ▲7 +15.6%
4 R Road Runner Sports logo Road Runner Sports ▲2 +14.9%
5 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut ▲2 +14.5%
6 B Big 5 Sporting Goods - +14.1%
7 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲1 +12.4%
8 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +10.8%
9 B Bloomingdale's logo Bloomingdale's ▲4 +10.5%
10 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲2 +10.5%
11 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble - +10.3%
12 C Cost Plus World Market logo Cost Plus World Market ▲8 +9.8%
13 C Cotton On logo Cotton On ▲3 +9.3%
14 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲1 +8.6%
15 T T-Shirt Mart logo T-Shirt Mart - +8.5%

Store footprint

Store map

3,130 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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