Great Falls, MT 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. Cenex and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Cenex	-	+9.2%
2	Starbucks	▲1	+8.5%
3	Conoco	-	+3.1%
4	Great Clips	-	-0.5%
5	Gas N Shop	▲2	-3.2%
6	Domino's Pizza	-	-10.1%
7	McDonald's	-	-11.7%
8	Taco Bell	-	-17.7%
9	Taco John's	-	-19.2%
10	Dairy Queen	▼1	-20.1%
11	Valvoline Instant Oil Change	▼1	-22.2%
12	United States Postal Service	▼1	-27.5%
13	Subway	-	-34.4%

Store footprint

Store map

456 tracked store locations in Great Falls, MT, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 25 of the 456 stores (5%); 358 of the 392 tracked chains have a single store here.