Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Athens-Clarke County, GA

Iceflower tracks 260 stores from 208 retail chains in Athens-Clarke County, GA. Family Dollar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General 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
208
Tracked stores
260
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. Family Dollar and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Family Dollar - +7.4%
2 Dollar General - +7.0%
3 Goodwill ▲1 +6.5%
4 Walmart - -1.2%
5 Bath & Body Works ▼1 -7.9%
6 Dollar Tree - -9.6%
  • Discount Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Specialty Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Retail Location
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

260 tracked store locations in Athens-Clarke County, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 39 of the 260 stores (15%); 187 of the 208 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Discount Store (38)
  • Thrift Stores (15)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (14)
  • Women's Contemporary (12)
  • Specialty Store (12)
  • Hardware Store (10)
  • Retail Location (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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