Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Iceflower tracks 19,977 stores from 13,290 retail and consumer chains in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN. Barnes & Noble grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Mitchell's Salon & Day Spa and Minnicks Drive Thru.

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
13,290
Tracked stores
19,977
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. Barnes & Noble and Mitchell's Salon & Day Spa sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Barnes & Noble ▲19 +18.5%
2 Mitchell's Salon & Day Spa ▲13 +16.7%
3 Minnicks Drive Thru ▲14 +16.2%
4 Cincinnati Zoo ▲14 +14.5%
5 Panera Bread ▲13 +10.7%
6 Culver's ▲10 +10.5%
7 Burlington ▲8 +10.0%
8 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +9.8%
9 Tire Discounters ▲4 +9.2%
10 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲12 +9.1%
11 Marshalls ▲3 +9.0%
12 Kroger - +8.1%
13 Waffle House ▲13 +8.0%
14 Trihealth ▲2 +7.2%
15 Steak 'n Shake ▲2 +6.6%

Store footprint

Store map

19,977 tracked store locations in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 639 of the 19,977 stores (3%); 12,173 of the 13,290 tracked chains have a single store here.

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