Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Anchorage, AK

Iceflower tracks 334 stores from 272 retail chains in Anchorage, AK. Michaels grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Home Depot and Burlington.

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
272
Tracked stores
334
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. Michaels and The Home Depot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Michaels - +19.8%
2 The Home Depot - +8.7%
3 Burlington - +6.7%
4 Target - +4.2%
5 Lowe's Home Improvement - +1.1%
6 Value Village ▲1 -0.3%
7 Foot Locker - -0.6%
8 Alaska Industrial Hardware - -1.4%
9 Walmart - -1.7%
10 Goodwill - -2.2%
11 Bath & Body Works - -2.9%
12 Petco - -8.2%
13 Famous Footwear ▼1 -9.0%
14 Office Depot - -9.5%
15 Claire's - -38.2%
  • Thrift Stores
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

334 tracked store locations in Anchorage, AK, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 24 of the 334 stores (7%); 236 of the 272 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are flower shops, against 10% across Alaska.

  • Thrift Stores (27)
  • Sporting Goods Store (26)
  • Flower Shop (24)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (22)
  • Specialty Store (16)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (14)
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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