Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 5,866 stores from 3,117 retail chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Value Village and Zales.

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
3,117
Tracked stores
5,866
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. Five Below and Value Village sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲3 +18.3%
2 V Value Village logo Value Village ▲6 +17.9%
3 Z Zales logo Zales ▲14 +16.7%
4 H Hallmark logo Hallmark ▲4 +16.6%
5 E Express logo Express ▲2 +15.9%
6 C Cost Plus World Market logo Cost Plus World Market ▲9 +15.3%
7 R Ralph Lauren logo Ralph Lauren ▲2 +14.3%
8 D dd's DISCOUNTS logo dd's DISCOUNTS ▲8 +14.2%
9 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲6 +13.6%
10 W Williams-Sonoma logo Williams-Sonoma ▲5 +13.2%
11 B BoxLunch logo BoxLunch ▲8 +13.0%
12 G Gap Factory logo Gap Factory ▲13 +12.6%
13 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲2 +11.9%
14 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut ▲5 +11.6%
15 C CHANEL logo CHANEL ▲6 +11.1%

Store footprint

Store map

5,866 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category.

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