Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in West Virginia

Iceflower tracks 2,352 stores from 1,213 retail chains in West Virginia. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ashley HomeStore and Hobby Lobby.

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: 1,213
Tracked stores: 2,352
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. Ace Hardware and Ashley HomeStore sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	A Ace Hardware	▲3	+16.4%
2	A Ashley HomeStore	▲3	+14.1%
3	H Hobby Lobby	▲1	+10.1%
4	B Buckle	▲1	+6.6%
5	H HomeGoods	-	+5.5%
6	M Menards	-	+5.4%
7	H Hot Topic	▲3	+5.3%
8	T Tractor Supply Co.	-	+5.3%
9	B Bealls	▲1	+4.8%
10	C Carter's	▲5	+4.7%
11	G Goodwill	▲1	+4.6%
12	T Target	-	+4.4%
13	H Harbor Freight Tools	-	+4.3%
14	T T.J.Maxx	-	+4.0%
15	M Michaels	▲3	+3.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,352 tracked store locations in West Virginia, colored by category.

Discount Store (586)
Vape & Tobacco Shops (147)
Thrift Stores (125)
Flower Shop (124)
Hardware Store (121)
Sporting Goods Store (105)
Specialty Store (102)
Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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