Hot Springs, AR 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. Smith Drug and Compounding and Murphy USA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Smith Drug and Compounding	▲3	+19.5%
2	Murphy USA	-	+15.2%
3	United States Postal Service	▲1	+14.9%
4	Exxon	-	+14.3%
5	Advance Auto Parts	-	+7.0%
6	Starbucks	-	+6.3%
7	Dollar Tree	▲1	+5.3%
8	Dollar General	-	+4.1%
9	AutoZone	▲1	+1.9%
10	Walgreens	-	+0.8%
11	Burger King	▲1	+0.1%
12	Subway	-	-0.1%
13	Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen	-	-0.4%
14	Circle K	-	-2.2%
15	Shell	-	-2.9%

Store footprint

Store map

955 tracked store locations in Hot Springs, AR, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 61 of the 955 stores (6%); 743 of the 801 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across Arkansas.