Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in College Station-Bryan, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,736 stores from 1,367 retail and consumer chains in College Station-Bryan, TX. H-E-B grew fastest over the last year, ahead of HEB ATM 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
1,367
Tracked stores
1,736
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. H-E-B and HEB ATM sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H-E-B - +14.1%
2 HEB ATM ▲2 +12.8%
3 Dollar General - +12.6%
4 Kroger - +12.1%
5 Dairy Queen - +5.2%
6 Burger King - +1.5%
7 Fatty's Smoke Shop ▲3 +1.1%
8 Family Dollar - -1.1%
9 Walgreens ▲1 -1.4%
10 Chick-fil-A - -1.6%
11 Shell - -2.2%
12 Dollar Tree - -2.4%
13 Dutch Bros Coffee - -2.8%
14 Tractor Supply Co. ▲2 -3.2%
15 Whataburger ▲1 -3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,736 tracked store locations in College Station-Bryan, TX, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 68 of the 1,736 stores (4%); 1,220 of the 1,367 tracked chains have a single store here.

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