Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Charleston, WV

Iceflower tracks 284 stores from 193 retail chains in Charleston, WV. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lowe's Home Improvement and Walmart.

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
193
Tracked stores
284
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. Dollar General and Lowe's Home Improvement sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +3.8%
2 Lowe's Home Improvement - +1.2%
3 Walmart - -0.8%
4 Staples ▲1 -3.2%
5 Dollar Tree - -10.5%
6 Family Dollar - -12.2%
7 Smoker Friendly - -12.2%
8 Sherwin-Williams ▼1 -15.4%
  • Discount Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Hardware Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

284 tracked store locations in Charleston, WV, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 80 of the 284 stores (28%); 177 of the 193 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Discount Store (77)
  • Thrift Stores (17)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (16)
  • Hardware Store (15)
  • Specialty Store (10)
  • Women's Contemporary (9)
  • Home Improvement Center (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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