Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 2,718 stores from 745 retail chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. lululemon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble 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
745
Tracked stores
2,718
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. lululemon and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L lululemon logo lululemon ▲2 +18.3%
2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲3 +17.5%
3 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +16.7%
4 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲7 +16.5%
5 L LEGO logo LEGO ▲11 +16.3%
6 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲1 +15.8%
7 O Once Upon A Child logo Once Upon A Child ▲8 +15.7%
8 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲2 +15.7%
9 C Cycle Gear logo Cycle Gear ▲12 +15.2%
10 W Windsor Fashions logo Windsor Fashions ▲16 +15.1%
11 C Cost Plus World Market logo Cost Plus World Market ▲6 +14.6%
12 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▲1 +14.6%
13 N Nordstrom logo Nordstrom ▲2 +13.6%
14 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲2 +12.4%
15 O Office Depot logo Office Depot ▲1 +12.4%

Store footprint

Store map

2,718 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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