Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Gainesville, FL

Iceflower tracks 492 stores from 380 retail chains in Gainesville, FL. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Goodwill 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
380
Tracked stores
492
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Dollar General and Goodwill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General ▲1 +16.5%
2 Goodwill ▲1 +15.6%
3 Dollar Tree ▲1 +13.3%
4 Five Below - +4.6%
5 Tractor Supply Co. - +2.8%
6 Ace Hardware - +2.5%
7 Family Dollar ▼1 -0.2%
8 Sherwin-Williams ▼1 -0.6%
9 The Home Depot - -1.4%
10 Walmart - -2.4%
11 Lowe's Home Improvement ▼1 -2.9%
12 Sunglass Hut - -8.5%
13 Hibbett Sports - -19.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Specialty Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Pet Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

492 tracked store locations in Gainesville, FL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 73 of the 492 stores (15%); 346 of the 380 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 7% across Florida.

  • Discount Store (66)
  • Thrift Stores (27)
  • Specialty Store (25)
  • Hardware Store (24)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (22)
  • Home Improvement Center (22)
  • Pet Store (20)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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