Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

Iceflower tracks 22,598 stores from 13,926 retail and consumer chains in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of First Watch and Ziggi's Coffee.

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
13,926
Tracked stores
22,598
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. Ace Hardware and First Watch sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware ▲13 +19.9%
2 First Watch ▲9 +19.2%
3 Ziggi's Coffee ▲5 +19.0%
4 Five Below ▲16 +18.5%
5 Outback Steakhouse ▲18 +18.3%
6 Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar ▲19 +18.0%
7 Domino's Pizza ▲15 +17.7%
8 Bellco Credit Union ▲7 +17.1%
9 Brakes Plus ▲15 +15.8%
10 Buffalo Wild Wings ▲17 +15.8%
11 Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲20 +15.3%
12 DICK'S Sporting Goods ▲7 +15.1%
13 American Eagle ▲17 +13.7%
14 Qdoba ▲11 +12.8%
15 Snarf's Sandwiches ▲15 +12.7%

Store footprint

Store map

22,598 tracked store locations in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 950 of the 22,598 stores (4%); 12,372 of the 13,926 tracked chains have a single store here.

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