Chattanooga, TN-GA 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. Snapdragon Hemp and Tennessee Aquarium sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Snapdragon Hemp	▲10	+18.3%
2	Tennessee Aquarium	▲7	+17.6%
3	Speedway	▲3	+14.2%
4	Hobby Lobby	▲3	+13.7%
5	Raceway	▲6	+13.5%
6	Pit Stop	▲2	+12.9%
7	McAlister's Deli	▲9	+12.6%
8	Ashley HomeStore	▲4	+11.7%
9	Ross Dress for Less	▲3	+11.3%
10	GameStop	▲6	+9.1%
11	Weigel's	▲1	+9.1%
12	Panda Express	▲7	+8.5%
13	Michaels	▲3	+8.1%
14	Shell	▲2	+7.8%
15	Pilot Flying J	▲4	+7.2%

Store footprint

Store map

5,268 tracked store locations in Chattanooga, TN-GA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 245 of the 5,268 stores (5%); 3,459 of the 3,825 tracked chains have a single store here.