Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Bowling Green, KY

Iceflower tracks 282 stores from 225 retail chains in Bowling Green, KY. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General 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
225
Tracked stores
282
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 Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar Tree ▲1 +14.1%
2 Dollar General - +9.2%
3 Ace Hardware ▼1 +0.2%
4 Tractor Supply Co. - -3.4%
5 Family Dollar - -3.8%
6 Hallmark - -13.6%
7 Express - -32.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Specialty Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

282 tracked store locations in Bowling Green, KY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 51 of the 282 stores (18%); 211 of the 225 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 6% across Kentucky.

  • Discount Store (49)
  • Thrift Stores (17)
  • Home Improvement Center (15)
  • Specialty Store (15)
  • Hardware Store (13)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (12)
  • Women's Contemporary (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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