Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Boulder, CO

Iceflower tracks 463 stores from 409 retail chains in Boulder, CO. Goodwill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Batteries Plus Bulbs and Dollar Tree.

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
409
Tracked stores
463
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. Goodwill and Batteries Plus Bulbs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Goodwill ▲1 +14.0%
2 Batteries Plus Bulbs - +7.7%
3 Dollar Tree ▼1 +7.4%
4 Michaels - +4.6%
5 The Home Depot - +2.0%
6 Ace Hardware - +1.9%
7 Smoker Friendly - +0.5%
8 Target - -0.7%
9 PetSmart - -3.2%
10 Famous Footwear - -3.9%
11 Walmart - -4.6%
12 Sherwin-Williams - -10.4%
13 Play It Again Sports - -13.1%
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Pet Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

463 tracked store locations in Boulder, CO, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 21 of the 463 stores (5%); 375 of the 409 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 6% across Colorado.

  • Sporting Goods Store (50)
  • Specialty Store (29)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (28)
  • Flower Shop (27)
  • Pet Store (24)
  • Thrift Stores (24)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (23)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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