Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in the United States

Iceflower tracks 352,428 stores from 150,271 retail chains in the United States. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CHANEL and Hermès.

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
150,271
Tracked stores
352,428
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 CHANEL sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +19.5%
2 C CHANEL logo CHANEL ▲13 +17.8%
3 H Hermès logo Hermès ▲9 +17.6%
4 C Cash America Pawn ▲20 +17.4%
5 S Sierra logo Sierra ▲13 +14.8%
6 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +14.2%
7 P Pottery Barn logo Pottery Barn ▲3 +13.9%
8 B Books-A-Million logo Books-A-Million ▲15 +13.7%
9 A Altar'd State logo Altar'd State ▲19 +13.0%
10 B BoxLunch logo BoxLunch ▲17 +12.7%
11 U Uptown Cheapskate logo Uptown Cheapskate ▲12 +12.2%
12 S Scheels logo Scheels ▲3 +12.0%
13 C Cavender's logo Cavender's ▲16 +11.3%
14 G Gap logo Gap ▲16 +11.3%
15 C Cost Plus World Market logo Cost Plus World Market ▲8 +11.1%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 352,428 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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