Metro by metro
The leading discount store chains in every Colorado metro area
Tracked discount store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Dollar Tree leads in 5 metro areas, Dollar General in 2 metro areas. Against their share in Colorado as a whole, Dollar Tree stands out in 2 metro areas, Dollar General in 2 metro areas, and Five Below in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Dollar Tree
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Colorado Springs, CO 1.1× · Boulder, CO 1.7×
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Dollar General
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Pueblo, CO 2.2× · Greeley, CO 2.2×
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Five Below
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO 1.3× · Fort Collins-Loveland, CO 1.7×
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Family Dollar
Relative #1 in Grand Junction, CO, 1.8× its share in Colorado
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Dollar Tree
#1 in 5 metro areas
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO · Colorado Springs, CO · Grand Junction, CO · Fort Collins-Loveland, CO · Boulder, CO
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Dollar General
#1 in 2 metro areas
Pueblo, CO · Greeley, CO
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked discount store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Colorado compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Colorado as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Colorado and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Colorado is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked discount store 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 Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Dollar General | - | +8.1% |
| 2 | Dollar Tree | - | -2.7% |
| 3 | The Bomb Headshop | ▲1 | -12.6% |
| 4 | Family Dollar | - | -16.8% |
| 5 | Big Lots | ▼1 | -98.9% |
- Dollar Tree
- Dollar General
- Five Below
- Family Dollar
- Daiso
- Black Fridays
- Super 99 Cents
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
381 tracked store locations in Colorado. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 362 of the 381 stores (95%); 12 of the 20 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 14% across the United States.
- Dollar Tree (117)
- Dollar General (82)
- Five Below (31)
- Family Dollar (114)
- Daiso (2)
- Black Fridays (1)
- Super 99 Cents (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar Tree 117
- 2 Family Dollar 114
- 3 Dollar General 82
- 4 Five Below 31
- 5 Big Lots 18
- 6 The Bomb Headshop 3
- 7 Pawn King 2
- 8 Daiso 2
- 9 Super 99 Cents 1
- 10 Daiso Japan 1
- 11 Giant Dollar 1
- 12 Bargain Bins 1
- 13 Black Fridays 1
- 14 Super Sale Bin Store 1
- 15 Leo’s Discount & Bin Store 1
- 16 PEACH TREE 1
- 17 Never Pay Retail 1
- 18 Black Diamond Variety 1
- 19 Salida Thrift 1
- 20 Aurora Dollar Store 1
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