Cape Girardeau, MO-IL 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. Dollar General and Harps Food Stores sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Dollar General	-	+12.7%
2	Harps Food Stores	-	+7.2%
3	Jimmy John's	-	+4.6%
4	Burger King	▲1	+4.5%
5	Drury Hotels	-	+3.6%
6	Choice Hotels	-	+2.8%
7	Dairy Queen	▲1	+0.5%
8	Papa John's Pizza	-	-0.0%
9	Acee's Neighborhood Market & Deli	-	-0.5%
10	Walmart	-	-3.7%
11	Sonic Drive-In	-	-7.5%
12	McDonald's	-	-8.5%
13	Exxon	-	-9.3%
14	Dollar Tree	-	-9.4%
15	Subway	-	-12.3%

Store footprint

Store map

448 tracked store locations in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 33 of the 448 stores (7%); 326 of the 369 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 14% across Missouri.