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. Cato Fashions and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cato Fashions | ▲1 | +6.6% |
| 2 | Dollar Tree | - | +1.5% |
| 3 | Dollar General | - | +0.6% |
| 4 | The Vapor Station | - | -2.1% |
| 5 | Walmart | - | -2.3% |
| 6 | Ace Hardware | - | -3.8% |
| 7 | Tractor Supply Co. | - | -9.3% |
| 8 | Family Dollar | - | -31.7% |
| 9 | Vapor Maven | ▼1 | -47.4% |
- Discount Store
- Vape & Tobacco Shops
- Thrift Stores
- Big-Box & General Merchandise
- Hardware Store
- Sporting Goods Store
- Specialty Store
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
287 tracked store locations in Fort Smith, AR-OK, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 90 of the 287 stores (31%); 167 of the 185 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 7% across Arkansas.
- Discount Store (81)
- Vape & Tobacco Shops (26)
- Thrift Stores (15)
- Big-Box & General Merchandise (13)
- Hardware Store (13)
- Sporting Goods Store (11)
- Specialty Store (9)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar General 55
- 2 Walmart 12
- 3 Family Dollar 9
- 4 Dollar Tree 9
- 5 Ace Hardware 5
- 6 Vapor Maven 3
- 7 Cato Fashions 3
- 8 The Vapor Station 3
- 9 Tractor Supply Co. 3
- 10 Spirit Halloween 2
- 11 Goodwill 2
- 12 Discount Tobacco 2
- 13 Sherwin-Williams 2
- 14 Maurices 2
- 15 Atwoods Ranch & Home Goods 2
- 16 Bath & Body Works 2
- 17 King Tobacco 2
- 18 Lowe's Home Improvement 2
- 19 Wasted 1
- 20 Jill's Consignment Boutique 1
- 21 Uniform Corner 1
- 22 Good Deal Bins 1
- 23 Trinkets Boutique 1
- 24 Midland Pawn & Jewelry 1
- 25 Cozy Quilts and Things 1
- 26 The Woodsman Company 1
- 27 Simon's Home Center 1
- 28 Francesca's 1
- 29 Greenwood Cycle 1
- 30 Black Bison Company Gift Shop 1
- 31 Rags 1
- 32 River Valley Pawn 1
- 33 Scrubs & Beyond 1
- 34 Fianna Hills Consignment Boutique 1
- 35 Now and Then Shoppe 1
- 36 Tobacco Superstore 1
- 37 AtoZ Tools 1
- 38 Red Wing 1
- 39 Tobacco Mart 1
- 40 Main Street Mercantile 1
- 41 Leslie's Pool Supplies 1
- 42 Sallisaw True Value Hardware 1
- 43 GS Hobby 1
- 44 Iron Post Smoke Shop 1
- 45 Creative Jewelry Salon 1
- 46 The Solid Rock Bookstore 1
- 47 Potted Plants 1
- 48 The Whole Pet 1
- 49 UAFS Bookstore 1
- 50 Infinity Sports & Outdoors 1
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