Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Five Below and Waffle House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Five Below	▲8	+18.5%
2	Waffle House	▲6	+16.9%
3	Ross Dress for Less	▲3	+16.3%
4	Wawa	-	+15.9%
5	Noire The Nail Bar	▲6	+13.4%
6	Miller's Ale House	▲4	+13.3%
7	Tires Plus	-	+13.3%
8	Victoria's Secret	▲3	+13.3%
9	ABC Fine Wine & Spirits	▲5	+12.9%
10	Petco	▲4	+12.8%
11	Tyson Eye	▼1	+12.3%
12	Circle K	▲1	+11.2%
13	Chevron	▲8	+10.1%
14	ALDI	▲1	+10.1%
15	Papa John's Pizza	▲9	+9.9%

Store footprint

Store map

5,730 tracked store locations in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 228 of the 5,730 stores (4%); 3,636 of the 4,073 tracked chains have a single store here.