Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Fargo, ND-MN

Iceflower tracks 1,084 stores from 788 retail and consumer chains in Fargo, ND-MN. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General and AutoZone.

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
788
Tracked stores
1,084
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 Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware ▲1 +15.5%
2 Dollar General ▲6 +10.4%
3 AutoZone ▲5 +9.9%
4 Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Thrift Store - +9.0%
5 Marathon ▲1 +8.2%
6 Burger King - +6.6%
7 Starbucks ▲3 +6.2%
8 Happy Harry's Bottle Shop ▲1 +4.4%
9 The UPS Store - +3.6%
10 Caribou Coffee ▲3 +2.9%
11 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲4 +1.6%
12 Buffalo Wild Wings - +1.0%
13 Jersey Mike's Subs - +0.7%
14 Family Fare ▲1 +0.2%
15 Panda Express ▲3 -0.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,084 tracked store locations in Fargo, ND-MN, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 79 of the 1,084 stores (7%); 691 of the 788 tracked chains have a single store here.

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