Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Akron, OH

Iceflower tracks 5,303 stores from 3,730 retail and consumer chains in Akron, OH. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Valley Smoke Shop and BP.

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
3,730
Tracked stores
5,303
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 The Valley Smoke Shop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Hobby Lobby ▲8 +18.6%
2 The Valley Smoke Shop ▲5 +15.8%
3 BP ▲3 +15.5%
4 Chick-fil-A ▲3 +14.7%
5 Goodwill ▲9 +13.4%
6 Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲7 +11.3%
7 Mavis Discount Tire ▲8 +10.9%
8 Wing Warehouse ▲6 +10.7%
9 AutoZone ▲2 +10.4%
10 Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲5 +10.2%
11 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲5 +9.0%
12 Little Caesars ▲7 +9.0%
13 Shell ▲1 +9.0%
14 SEPHORA ▲8 +8.5%
15 Harbor Freight Tools ▲1 +7.9%

Store footprint

Store map

5,303 tracked store locations in Akron, OH, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 249 of the 5,303 stores (5%); 3,362 of the 3,730 tracked chains have a single store here.

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