Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Gadsden, AL

Iceflower tracks 929 stores from 780 retail and consumer chains in Gadsden, AL. Circle K grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Waffle House and Dollar Tree.

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
780
Tracked stores
929
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. Circle K and Waffle House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Circle K ▲1 +14.5%
2 Waffle House ▲2 +5.1%
3 Dollar Tree - +4.6%
4 Chevron - +4.2%
5 Burger King ▲1 +4.1%
6 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲1 +0.5%
7 AutoZone - +0.5%
8 Domino's Pizza ▲2 -0.5%
9 Shell - -1.3%
10 McDonald's ▼1 -3.6%
11 Dollar General - -3.7%
12 Family Dollar - -4.0%
13 Arby's ▲2 -6.9%
14 CVS Pharmacy ▼1 -11.7%
15 KFC - -12.1%

Store footprint

Store map

929 tracked store locations in Gadsden, AL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 67 of the 929 stores (7%); 723 of the 780 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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