Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Cedar Rapids, IA

Iceflower tracks 1,954 stores from 1,520 retail and consumer chains in Cedar Rapids, IA. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of O'Reilly Auto Parts and Kwik Trip.

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
1,520
Tracked stores
1,954
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Panda Express and O'Reilly Auto Parts sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Panda Express ▲4 +14.3%
2 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲3 +11.7%
3 Kwik Trip ▲1 +10.9%
4 Shell ▲5 +10.9%
5 Subway - +9.0%
6 Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲2 +8.4%
7 Casey's - +8.2%
8 T-Mobile ▲2 +8.2%
9 Mister Car Wash ▲3 +6.8%
10 Domino's Pizza ▲3 +6.8%
11 AutoZone ▲1 +6.5%
12 Scooter's Coffee ▲3 +5.4%
13 Cenex ▲1 +5.2%
14 Dollar Tree ▲1 +4.0%
15 CVS Pharmacy ▲1 +4.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,954 tracked store locations in Cedar Rapids, IA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 124 of the 1,954 stores (6%); 1,380 of the 1,520 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 6% across Iowa.

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