Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Erie, PA

Iceflower tracks 396 stores from 311 retail chains in Erie, PA. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Valu Home Center and Dollar General.

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
311
Tracked stores
396
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 Tree and Valu Home Center sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar Tree - +15.8%
2 Valu Home Center - +5.0%
3 Dollar General - +3.6%
4 Walmart - -0.9%
5 Smoker Friendly - -4.8%
6 The Salvation Army Family Store & Donation Center - -8.1%
7 Family Dollar - -8.7%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Specialty Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Hardware Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

396 tracked store locations in Erie, PA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 70 of the 396 stores (18%); 289 of the 311 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 4% across Pennsylvania.

  • Discount Store (66)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (29)
  • Specialty Store (26)
  • Sporting Goods Store (22)
  • Thrift Stores (18)
  • Hardware Store (17)
  • Flower Shop (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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