Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Helena, MT

Iceflower tracks 77 stores from 71 retail chains in Helena, MT.

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
71
Tracked stores
77
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. Family Dollar and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Family Dollar - +14.3%
2 Ace Hardware - -1.1%
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Discount Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Thrift Stores
  • Bookstore
  • Flower Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

77 tracked store locations in Helena, MT, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 11 of the 77 stores (14%); 69 of the 71 tracked chains have a single store here. 14% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 9% across Montana.

  • Sporting Goods Store (11)
  • Hardware Store (9)
  • Discount Store (7)
  • Home Improvement Center (5)
  • Thrift Stores (4)
  • Bookstore (3)
  • Flower Shop (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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