Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 46,635 stores from 30,092 retail and consumer chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Coach and Five Below.

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
30,092
Tracked stores
46,635
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 Coach sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲12 +19.7%
2 C Coach logo Coach ▲15 +19.3%
3 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲9 +17.3%
4 V Value Village logo Value Village ▲13 +16.9%
5 L Liberty logo Liberty ▲12 +15.8%
6 E Express logo Express ▲10 +15.0%
7 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲11 +14.0%
8 R Royal Farms logo Royal Farms - +13.9%
9 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - +13.6%
10 P Publix logo Publix ▲3 +12.9%
11 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲15 +12.7%
12 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲5 +12.6%
13 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲8 +12.2%
14 M MGM National Harbor logo MGM National Harbor ▲3 +12.1%
15 M MedStar Health logo MedStar Health - +11.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 46,635 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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