Fort Smith, AR-OK Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. 10Box Cost Plus and Farmers Coop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	10Box Cost Plus	▲4	+18.3%
2	Farmers Coop	▲4	+17.4%
3	Starbucks	▲3	+16.5%
4	Littlefield Express	▲6	+15.0%
5	Hugs and Biscuits	▲3	+13.7%
6	Harps Food Stores	-	+10.5%
7	Chick-fil-A	▲1	+7.9%
8	Little Caesars	-	+7.9%
9	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲3	+7.3%
10	Whataburger	▲3	+5.2%
11	Braum's Ice Cream & Burger Restaurant	▲1	+3.2%
12	Murphy USA	-	+1.6%
13	Casey's	-	+0.6%
14	El Lorito	▲4	+0.4%
15	Shell	▲2	-1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,480 tracked store locations in Fort Smith, AR-OK, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 115 of the 1,480 stores (8%); 943 of the 1,065 tracked chains have a single store here.