Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Iceflower tracks 26,419 stores from 18,189 retail and consumer chains in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Marathon and Burlington.

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
18,189
Tracked stores
26,419
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 Marathon sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲12 +19.6%
2 M Marathon logo Marathon ▲15 +19.5%
3 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲9 +19.4%
4 E Emerald Queen Casino Hotel ▲6 +17.5%
5 U Uniqlo logo Uniqlo ▲14 +16.4%
6 U US Foods CHEF'STORE logo US Foods CHEF'STORE ▲10 +16.2%
7 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲6 +13.4%
8 Q QFC logo QFC ▲4 +12.7%
9 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲9 +11.3%
10 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage ▲11 +11.0%
11 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲6 +9.6%
12 M MOD Pizza logo MOD Pizza ▲8 +8.7%
13 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +8.3%
14 A ampm logo ampm ▲1 +6.2%
15 U UW Medicine logo UW Medicine ▲9 +6.2%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 26,419 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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