Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Akron, OH

Iceflower tracks 506 stores from 275 retail chains in Akron, OH. Carter's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of DICK'S Sporting Goods and Goodwill.

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
275
Tracked stores
506
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. Carter's and DICK'S Sporting Goods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Carter's logo Carter's - +15.0%
2 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods - +12.5%
3 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲3 +11.7%
4 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby - +11.4%
5 G GameStop logo GameStop - +10.7%
6 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +8.4%
7 O Old Navy logo Old Navy ▲1 +7.4%
8 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲1 +7.3%
9 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +6.9%
10 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +4.9%
11 O Once Upon A Child logo Once Upon A Child - +4.5%
12 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +4.3%
13 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +3.9%
14 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +3.5%
15 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - +2.5%

Store footprint

Store map

506 tracked store locations in Akron, OH, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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