Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 25,479 stores from 14,048 retail and consumer chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Baskin-Robbins grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dash In and Restaurant Depot.

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
14,048
Tracked stores
25,479
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. Baskin-Robbins and Dash In sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲17 +19.9%
2 D Dash In logo Dash In ▲14 +19.4%
3 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot ▲8 +18.7%
4 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲13 +18.7%
5 B Bloomingdale's logo Bloomingdale's ▲10 +17.4%
6 S Sardi's Pollo A La Brasa logo Sardi's Pollo A La Brasa ▲16 +17.3%
7 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲11 +16.2%
8 M MOM's Organic Market logo MOM's Organic Market ▲4 +15.8%
9 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲14 +14.5%
10 L Lotte Plaza Market logo Lotte Plaza Market ▲8 +11.4%
11 D DTLR logo DTLR ▲10 +10.9%
12 F Fresh World ▲4 +10.8%
13 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲11 +10.5%
14 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲7 +10.2%
15 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲6 +9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 25,479 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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