Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Bismarck, ND

Iceflower tracks 99 stores from 84 retail chains in Bismarck, ND. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Walmart.

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
84
Tracked stores
99
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 General and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +14.2%
2 Dollar Tree - +13.5%
3 Walmart - +3.3%
  • Discount Store
  • Farm & Ranch Stores
  • Teen & Young Adult Apparel
  • Big-Box & General Merchandise
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Thrift Stores
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

99 tracked store locations in Bismarck, ND, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 16 of the 99 stores (16%); 75 of the 84 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 18% across North Dakota.

  • Discount Store (12)
  • Farm & Ranch Stores (6)
  • Teen & Young Adult Apparel (6)
  • Big-Box & General Merchandise (6)
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands (5)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (5)
  • Thrift Stores (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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