Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Billings, MT

Iceflower tracks 204 stores from 178 retail chains in Billings, MT. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Famous Footwear 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
178
Tracked stores
204
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 Famous Footwear sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar Tree - +12.5%
2 Famous Footwear - +8.6%
3 Ace Hardware - -0.0%
4 Walmart - -3.5%
5 Office Depot - -5.3%
6 Family Dollar - -7.9%
7 Smoker Friendly - -15.8%
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Discount Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

204 tracked store locations in Billings, MT, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 19 of the 204 stores (9%); 163 of the 178 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 9% across Montana.

  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (16)
  • Sporting Goods Store (13)
  • Thrift Stores (11)
  • Discount Store (11)
  • Specialty Store (10)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (9)
  • Hardware Store (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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