Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Altoona, PA

Iceflower tracks 184 stores from 140 retail chains in Altoona, PA. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General and Walmart.

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
140
Tracked stores
184
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. Dollar Tree and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar Tree ▲1 +9.1%
2 Dollar General - +7.1%
3 Walmart - -2.5%
4 Bath & Body Works - -13.5%
5 Herbal Equipment and Distribution - -14.8%
6 Family Dollar ▼1 -24.3%
7 True Value - -25.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Hardware Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Teen & Young Adult Apparel
  • Department Stores
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

184 tracked store locations in Altoona, PA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 37 of the 184 stores (20%); 126 of the 140 tracked chains have a single store here. 21% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 14% across Pennsylvania.

  • Discount Store (38)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (15)
  • Hardware Store (10)
  • Thrift Stores (8)
  • Teen & Young Adult Apparel (7)
  • Department Stores (7)
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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