District of Columbia Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Andy's Pizza and BP sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Andy's Pizza	▲6	+18.6%
2	BP	-	+17.8%
3	lululemon	-	+17.7%
4	Trader Joe's	▲2	+16.4%
5	ALDI	▲2	+15.9%
6	Barnes & Noble	▲3	+13.6%
7	Ted's Bulletin	▲4	+10.6%
8	Shell	-	+8.6%
9	Sunoco	▲4	+8.5%
10	Amtrak	-	+8.5%
11	Streets Market	-	+8.1%
12	Lidl	▲1	+7.2%
13	McDonald's	-	+5.7%
14	Giant Food	-	+3.7%
15	CAVA	▲1	+3.3%

Store footprint

Store map

5,900 tracked store locations in District of Columbia, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 297 of the 5,900 stores (5%); 4,420 of the 4,736 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 11% across the United States.