Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Huntsville, AL

Iceflower tracks 3,760 stores from 2,620 retail and consumer chains in Huntsville, AL. Murphy USA grew fastest over the last year, ahead of RaceTrac and GameStop.

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
2,620
Tracked stores
3,760
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. Murphy USA and RaceTrac sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Murphy USA - +19.2%
2 RaceTrac ▲1 +15.4%
3 GameStop ▲10 +14.3%
4 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲6 +14.0%
5 Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers ▲9 +13.8%
6 Petsense by Tractor Supply - +13.0%
7 Michaels ▲11 +12.9%
8 Starbucks ▲2 +12.1%
9 Whataburger ▲2 +11.9%
10 Kroger - +10.9%
11 Subway ▲4 +8.9%
12 Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe ▲4 +8.8%
13 Huntsville Hospital ▲9 +8.1%
14 Shell ▲1 +8.0%
15 Chick-fil-A - +7.1%

Store footprint

Store map

3,760 tracked store locations in Huntsville, AL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 171 of the 3,760 stores (5%); 2,290 of the 2,620 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 12% across Alabama.

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