Trends · data through September 2026

Specialty Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 1,317 stores from 1,216 specialty store chains in California. JC Power Audio Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Big Creek Lumber and Diddams Party and Toy Store.

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
1,216
Tracked stores
1,317
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty store 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. JC Power Audio Shop and Big Creek Lumber sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 JC Power Audio Shop ▲1 +15.7%
2 Big Creek Lumber - +12.1%
3 Diddams Party and Toy Store - -8.4%
4 Big Daddy Garden Supply - -10.7%
5 Shilpark Paint ▼1 -11.4%
6 Vista Paint - -13.0%
  • The Floor Store
  • Healdsburg Lumber Co.
  • Bar None Auction
  • Bright Event Rentals
  • White Forest Nursery
  • Signature Party Rentals
  • Urban Tree Farm Nursery
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,317 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 1,317 stores (2%); 1,145 of the 1,216 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are specialty stores, the same share as across the United States.

  • The Floor Store (2)
  • Healdsburg Lumber Co. (2)
  • Bar None Auction (1)
  • Bright Event Rentals (1)
  • White Forest Nursery (1)
  • Signature Party Rentals (1)
  • Urban Tree Farm Nursery (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Vista Paint 13
  • 2 Shilpark Paint 8
  • 3 Big Daddy Garden Supply 4
  • 4 Desert Electric Supply 3
  • 5 JC Power Audio Shop 3
  • 6 Big Creek Lumber 3
  • 7 Valley Smoke Shop 3
  • 8 Diddams Party and Toy Store 3
  • 9 The Floor Store 2
  • 10 Soundz Good Garage 2
  • 11 Reel Lumber Service 2
  • 12 Inland Vet Supply 2
  • 13 Professional Paint Center 2
  • 14 Catalina Paints 2
  • 15 Mark's Guitar Exchange 2
  • 16 Ali Baba Smoke Shop 2
  • 17 Craft Party Supply 2
  • 18 California Sound 2
  • 19 KRC Rock 2
  • 20 Flora Grubb Gardens 2
  • 21 OneSource Distributors 2
  • 22 Mr Tint 2
  • 23 Alin Party Supply 2
  • 24 Kern Machinery 2
  • 25 Healdsburg Lumber Co. 2
  • 26 Hunter's Nursery 2
  • 27 SoLo 2
  • 28 The Cave Smoke Shop 2
  • 29 Cig World 2
  • 30 Louie's Nursery 2
  • 31 Prickett's Nursery 2
  • 32 Roger's Gardens Newport Beach 2
  • 33 Sunshine Growers Nursery 2
  • 34 DFW Furniture Warehouse 2
  • 35 Affordable Treasures 2
  • 36 Camarillo 2
  • 37 Mayan Hardwood 2
  • 38 Haze Dispensary 2
  • 39 California Keyboards Music Center 1
  • 40 Sherman Oaks Medical Supply 1
  • 41 Yamagami's 1
  • 42 Ability Center 1
  • 43 Johnson Garden Center 1
  • 44 Plant and Pottery Outlet 1
  • 45 AAA Pianos Sacramento 1
  • 46 Party Time & Candies 1
  • 47 Leilani's Leis 1
  • 48 Bar None Auction 1
  • 49 Perfect Circuit 1
  • 50 Encinal Nursery 1

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