Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 3,505 stores from 1,364 retail chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Bloomingdale's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Forman Mills and Meadows Farms Nurseries and Landscape.

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
1,364
Tracked stores
3,505
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. Bloomingdale's and Forman Mills sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bloomingdale's logo Bloomingdale's ▲5 +18.8%
2 F Forman Mills logo Forman Mills ▲7 +17.1%
3 M Meadows Farms Nurseries and Landscape logo Meadows Farms Nurseries and Landscape ▲8 +16.9%
4 F Ferguson Plumbing Supply logo Ferguson Plumbing Supply ▲13 +16.8%
5 B Bob's Discount Furniture logo Bob's Discount Furniture ▲7 +15.6%
6 R R.E. Michel Company logo R.E. Michel Company ▲4 +15.5%
7 T Tobacco Hut ▲3 +14.6%
8 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. ▲8 +12.9%
9 D DTLR logo DTLR ▲5 +12.2%
10 J J.Crew logo J.Crew ▲10 +12.1%
11 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲4 +11.8%
12 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲3 +11.5%
13 S Spirit Halloween logo Spirit Halloween ▲10 +11.4%
14 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲3 +11.0%
15 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +10.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,505 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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