Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in El Centro, CA

Iceflower tracks 679 stores from 491 retail and consumer chains in El Centro, CA. Walmart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of El Sol Market and Chevron.

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
491
Tracked stores
679
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. Walmart and El Sol Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Walmart - +11.7%
2 El Sol Market ▲3 +10.9%
3 Chevron - +9.4%
4 Shell ▲1 +9.4%
5 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲3 +9.4%
6 AutoZone ▲2 +8.7%
7 Circle K ▲1 +3.1%
8 Dollar General - +2.9%
9 ampm - +2.2%
10 Jack in the Box ▲1 -0.1%
11 McDonald's ▲1 -0.6%
12 Starbucks - -1.6%
13 Carl's Jr. ▲1 -5.0%
14 Family Dollar - -6.4%
15 Little Caesars ▲1 -6.4%

Store footprint

Store map

679 tracked store locations in El Centro, CA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 54 of the 679 stores (8%); 412 of the 491 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 14% across California.

Top tracked chains by store count

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