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. Sunrise Bagel & Espresso and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunrise Bagel & Espresso | ▲1 | +3.8% |
| 2 | Starbucks | - | -0.9% |
| 3 | McDonald's | - | -2.1% |
| 4 | Safeway | - | -4.9% |
| 5 | Speedway | ▲1 | -5.4% |
| 6 | United States Postal Service | ▼1 | -6.8% |
| 7 | GNC | ▲1 | -15.3% |
| 8 | Taco Bell | ▼1 | -15.6% |
| 9 | AT&T Store | - | -27.1% |
| 10 | Papa John's Pizza | ▼1 | -31.5% |
Store footprint
Store map
641 tracked store locations in Fairbanks-College, AK, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 28 of the 641 stores (4%); 530 of the 568 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 9% across Alaska.
- Food & Drink (215)
- Retail (100)
- Gas & Auto (84)
- Other (76)
- Health & Beauty (75)
- Leisure & Travel (52)
- Grocery & Convenience (39)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 United States Postal Service 9
- 2 Tesoro 6
- 3 Speedway 5
- 4 AT&T Store 4
- 5 Shell 4
- 6 Subway 4
- 7 McDonald's 4
- 8 Circle K 4
- 9 Taco Bell 3
- 10 Papa John's Pizza 3
- 11 O'Reilly Auto Parts 3
- 12 GNC 3
- 13 Safeway 3
- 14 Starbucks 3
- 15 Sunrise Bagel & Espresso 3
- 16 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 2
- 17 NAPA Auto Parts 2
- 18 Splash & Dash Car Wash 2
- 19 Big Ray's 2
- 20 Chevron 2
- 21 Arby's 2
- 22 Wendy's 2
- 23 Domino's Pizza 2
- 24 Taco King 2
- 25 Global Credit Union 2
- 26 Jiffy Lube 2
- 27 Sentry Hardware 2
- 28 Cold Spot Feeds 2
- 29 Fred Meyer 2
- 30 The UPS Store 2
- 31 AutoZone 2
- 32 U-Haul 1
- 33 Blue Roof Bistro 1
- 34 Elegant Nail Spa 1
- 35 The Hungry Robot 1
- 36 Gavora's Liquor & Fine Wine 1
- 37 Ivory Jacks 1
- 38 Fairbanks Laundry 1
- 39 Midas 1
- 40 Alaska Petroleum Distributing 1
- 41 UA Museum of the North Store 1
- 42 Fenders 1
- 43 Borealis Basecamp 1
- 44 Big Daddy's BBQ 1
- 45 Office Depot 1
- 46 North Pole Alehouse 1
- 47 Bassett Army Hospital Med Libr 1
- 48 Delta Powersports Fairbanks 1
- 49 Sophie Station Hotel 1
- 50 Alyeska Tire 1
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