Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Boulder, CO

Iceflower tracks 3,373 stores from 2,756 retail and consumer chains in Boulder, CO. Valvoline Instant Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Five Guys and Sweet Cow.

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
2,756
Tracked stores
3,373
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. Valvoline Instant Oil Change and Five Guys sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲4 +19.8%
2 Five Guys ▲5 +15.4%
3 Sweet Cow ▲6 +13.3%
4 Shell - +12.1%
5 CubeSmart Self Storage ▲1 +8.8%
6 Goodwill ▲3 +8.5%
7 Burger King ▲7 +5.3%
8 Murphy USA - +3.6%
9 Snarf's Sandwiches ▲4 +2.5%
10 Las Palmeras Express ▲2 +2.2%
11 Dollar Tree - +2.2%
12 The Post Chicken & Beer ▲4 +1.8%
13 Discount Tire ▲1 +1.5%
14 Tangerine ▲3 +1.4%
15 Great Clips ▲2 +1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

3,373 tracked store locations in Boulder, CO, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 92 of the 3,373 stores (3%); 2,498 of the 2,756 tracked chains have a single store here. 23% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 15% across Colorado.

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