Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA

Iceflower tracks 197 stores from 159 retail chains in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Tractor Supply Co..

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
159
Tracked stores
197
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 - +2.9%
2 Dollar Tree - -1.5%
3 Tractor Supply Co. - -3.1%
4 Walmart - -3.6%
5 Family Dollar - -7.0%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Flower Shop
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Specialty Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

197 tracked store locations in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 37 of the 197 stores (19%); 148 of the 159 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, against 3% across Virginia.

  • Discount Store (34)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (13)
  • Flower Shop (11)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (10)
  • Sporting Goods Store (10)
  • Thrift Stores (9)
  • Specialty Store (8)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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