Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in College Station-Bryan, TX

Iceflower tracks 299 stores from 233 retail chains in College Station-Bryan, TX. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cash America Pawn and Fatty's Smoke Shop.

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
233
Tracked stores
299
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 Cash America Pawn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +16.0%
2 Cash America Pawn - +8.2%
3 Fatty's Smoke Shop ▲1 +4.2%
4 Family Dollar - +2.0%
5 Dollar Tree - +0.6%
6 Tractor Supply Co. - -0.2%
7 Walmart - -3.1%
8 Goodwill ▼1 -38.7%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Thrift Stores
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Jewelry Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

299 tracked store locations in College Station-Bryan, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 299 stores (14%); 203 of the 233 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are thrift stores, against 5% across Texas.

  • Discount Store (41)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (24)
  • Thrift Stores (20)
  • Sporting Goods Store (13)
  • Home Improvement Center (11)
  • Women's Contemporary (10)
  • Jewelry Store (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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