Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Champaign-Urbana, IL

Iceflower tracks 227 stores from 186 retail chains in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sherwin-Williams and Dollar General.

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
186
Tracked stores
227
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. Ace Hardware and Sherwin-Williams sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware - +14.2%
2 Sherwin-Williams - +10.7%
3 Dollar General - +8.3%
4 Walmart - +3.8%
5 Dollar Tree - -7.0%
  • Discount Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Hardware Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Bookstore
  • Flower Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

227 tracked store locations in Champaign-Urbana, IL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 37 of the 227 stores (16%); 172 of the 186 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are thrift stores, against 4% across Illinois.

  • Discount Store (32)
  • Thrift Stores (15)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (12)
  • Hardware Store (11)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (11)
  • Bookstore (9)
  • Flower Shop (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in fashion, apparel and footwear? See consumer transaction data for fashion, apparel and footwear →