Trends · data through September 2026

Other trends in Ames, IA

Iceflower tracks 98 stores from 78 other chains in Ames, IA. T-Mobile grew fastest over the last year, ahead of United States Postal Service and Verizon.

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
78
Tracked stores
98
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked other 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. T-Mobile and United States Postal Service sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T-Mobile - +14.3%
2 United States Postal Service - -25.4%
3 Verizon - -55.3%
  • Post Office
  • Social & Community Service
  • Wireless Carriers
  • Schools & School Fees
  • Storage Facility
  • Specialty School
  • Colleges & Universities
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

98 tracked store locations in Ames, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 24 of the 98 stores (24%); 72 of the 78 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Post Office (11)
  • Social & Community Service (9)
  • Wireless Carriers (9)
  • Schools & School Fees (5)
  • Storage Facility (5)
  • Specialty School (5)
  • Colleges & Universities (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 United States Postal Service 11
  • 2 Key Cooperative 5
  • 3 Verizon 3
  • 4 T-Mobile 3
  • 5 H&R Block 2
  • 6 UScellular 2
  • 7 1850 Homestead 1
  • 8 Maxwell Old Settlers 1
  • 9 Signature Self Storage 1
  • 10 The Salt Company 1
  • 11 Zearing Public Library 1
  • 12 Cornerstone Church 1
  • 13 Boone High School 1
  • 14 Roland-Story High School 1
  • 15 Prints Copy Center 1
  • 16 Boone County 4-H 1
  • 17 A Stitch On Time 1
  • 18 Rail Explorers 1
  • 19 Bobcat of Ames 1
  • 20 IA Beef Checkoff 1
  • 21 PhotoSynthesis 1
  • 22 Clouds 1
  • 23 Spice Rax 1
  • 24 Vetter Equipment 1
  • 25 Iowa Turkey Federation 1
  • 26 CubeSmart Self Storage 1
  • 27 City of Slater 1
  • 28 Northcrest Community 1
  • 29 ISU AERE 1
  • 30 Ames High School 1
  • 31 Iowa Sports Foundation 1
  • 32 Traditions Home Painting 1
  • 33 Ames Middle School 1
  • 34 ISU Extension Store 1
  • 35 The Arc of Story County 1
  • 36 Collins Maxwell Food Pantry 1
  • 37 Iowa Youth Ballet 1
  • 38 Noir 1
  • 39 Boone National Little League 1
  • 40 ISU GPSS 1
  • 41 American Legion Post 37 1
  • 42 Ames Public Library 1
  • 43 Walters Sanitary Service 1
  • 44 Pepper's Pawfection 1
  • 45 Central Iowa Air Service 1
  • 46 Aspen Ames 1
  • 47 DMACC Boone Campus 1
  • 48 Johnstone Supply 1
  • 49 Mayfair Cleaners 1
  • 50 London Underground 1

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