Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 17,482 stores from 7,262 retail and consumer chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. QuikTrip grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and LongHorn Steakhouse.

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
7,262
Tracked stores
17,482
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. QuikTrip and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Q QuikTrip logo QuikTrip ▲4 +19.4%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲5 +18.6%
3 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲20 +17.2%
4 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲16 +16.3%
5 T Time Mart ▲2 +16.1%
6 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲9 +15.8%
7 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲11 +15.3%
8 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲15 +14.7%
9 L lululemon logo lululemon ▲12 +13.6%
10 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲15 +13.4%
11 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲5 +12.9%
12 F Fuel Maxx ▲1 +12.4%
13 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲6 +12.1%
14 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲2 +11.2%
15 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲3 +11.1%

Store footprint

Store map

17,482 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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