Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked specialty store 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. Joe's Market Basket and Jeffrey Alans sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe's Market Basket | - | +10.9% |
| 2 | Jeffrey Alans | - | -4.1% |
- The Mulch Center
- Sb Smoke Shop
- Wannemaker's Home and Garden
- Joe's Market Basket
- Chicago Car Auction
- Arlington Power Equipment
- Midwest Carpet & Flooring
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
437 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 12 of the 437 stores (3%); 405 of the 420 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are specialty stores, the same share as across the United States.
- The Mulch Center (2)
- Sb Smoke Shop (1)
- Wannemaker's Home and Garden (1)
- Joe's Market Basket (3)
- Chicago Car Auction (1)
- Arlington Power Equipment (1)
- Midwest Carpet & Flooring (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Joe's Market Basket 3
- 2 Jeffrey Alans 3
- 3 Heights Flowers 2
- 4 Clover's Garden Center 2
- 5 Cassandra Strings 2
- 6 Burkdell Mulch 2
- 7 The Music Shoppe Inc. 2
- 8 Piasa Armory 2
- 9 Hard Rock Smoke & Vape 2
- 10 Gensler Gardens 2
- 11 LevelUp Seed & Garden Supply 2
- 12 Owl Hardwood Lumber Co 2
- 13 The Mulch Center 2
- 14 Studio41 Home Design Showroom 2
- 15 Vapors 4 U 1
- 16 Soundz Good Chicago 1
- 17 King Music Inc 1
- 18 Xclusive Audio LLC 1
- 19 Lucky Smoke Shop 1
- 20 Dulceria El Encanto 1
- 21 Sound Bytes 1
- 22 Van Driel Medical Specialties 1
- 23 The Fields on Caton Farm 1
- 24 The Arboretum 1
- 25 Kenneth Stein Violins 1
- 26 Virginia Tile Co 1
- 27 Integrated HomeCare Services 1
- 28 Schwarz Nursery and Garden Center 1
- 29 Meridian Nursery Inc. 1
- 30 Monos 1
- 31 Urhausen Greenhouses 1
- 32 Xclusive Autosound 1
- 33 City Electric Supply Skokie 1
- 34 Bradley Mowers 1
- 35 Spring Bluff CSA 1
- 36 Doolin's 1
- 37 Larabee Herbs 1
- 38 NorthShore Care Supply 1
- 39 Apotheco Pharmacy Naperville 1
- 40 Mark Drug Medical Supply 1
- 41 Grow Geneva 1
- 42 Horvat's Garden Center 1
- 43 Down Home Guitars 1
- 44 A Sound Education 1
- 45 Rock Valley Garden Center 1
- 46 Wayne's Feed Store 1
- 47 Windy City Garden Center 1
- 48 Marion Tobacco & Vape 1
- 49 Sheridan Nursery 1
- 50 McCullough Kubota 1
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