Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 11,156 stores from 6,516 retail and consumer chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. GameStop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Firestone Complete Auto Care and Ace Hardware.

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
6,516
Tracked stores
11,156
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. GameStop and Firestone Complete Auto Care sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲11 +20.0%
2 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲10 +17.6%
3 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲7 +17.5%
4 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲6 +16.3%
5 F Friendly's logo Friendly's ▲4 +15.2%
6 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲4 +15.1%
7 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲8 +14.8%
8 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲1 +13.9%
9 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲7 +13.4%
10 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲4 +12.9%
11 G Green Valley Marketplace ▲7 +12.0%
12 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲5 +11.5%
13 S SEPHORA logo SEPHORA ▲5 +10.8%
14 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +10.7%
15 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲5 +10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

11,156 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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