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. Ace Hardware and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ace Hardware | - | +13.4% |
| 2 | Dollar General | - | +8.3% |
| 3 | Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Thrift Store | - | +7.0% |
| 4 | Walmart | - | -9.7% |
| 5 | Dollar Tree | - | -14.9% |
- Discount Store
- Sporting Goods Store
- Thrift Stores
- Home Improvement Center
- Hardware Store
- Pet Store
- Specialty Store
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
164 tracked store locations in Fargo, ND-MN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 21 of the 164 stores (13%); 125 of the 139 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 18% across North Dakota.
- Discount Store (15)
- Sporting Goods Store (9)
- Thrift Stores (8)
- Home Improvement Center (7)
- Hardware Store (7)
- Pet Store (6)
- Specialty Store (6)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar General 7
- 2 Dollar Tree 5
- 3 Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Thrift Store 3
- 4 Ace Hardware 3
- 5 Walmart 3
- 6 Scheels 2
- 7 Shoe Carnival 2
- 8 Windsor Fashions 2
- 9 Hobby Lobby 2
- 10 Hallmark 2
- 11 Target 2
- 12 Office Depot 2
- 13 Menards 2
- 14 Sherwin-Williams 2
- 15 Build-A-Bear Workshop 1
- 16 Uptown Cheapskate 1
- 17 Rae-Bon Sew & Quilt Shop 1
- 18 Austad's Golf 1
- 19 Claire's 1
- 20 Trademark Uniforms 1
- 21 Strand Ace Hardware Barnesville 1
- 22 Eddie Bauer 1
- 23 Dakota Cat 1
- 24 J.Crew Factory 1
- 25 Q Smoke 1
- 26 Hot Spring Spas and Pool Tables 1
- 27 Mystic Moth Studio 1
- 28 Torrid 1
- 29 Goodwill 1
- 30 Stabo Scandinavian Imports 1
- 31 Express 1
- 32 Carter's 1
- 33 Used-A-Bit Sales & Pawn 1
- 34 Great Northern Bicycle Co. 1
- 35 Pandora 1
- 36 Minn-Dak Market 1
- 37 Paramount Sports 1
- 38 Maurices 1
- 39 The Plant Supply 1
- 40 Plato's Closet 1
- 41 DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse 1
- 42 Mellow Mood 1
- 43 Tropical Oasis Fish and Pets 1
- 44 Prairie Pharmacy 1
- 45 Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market 1
- 46 Hildebrant Farm 1
- 47 Botanical Brothers 1
- 48 Prairie Bricks 1
- 49 West Acres 1
- 50 FM Antiques and More 1
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