Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN

Iceflower tracks 8,904 stores from 4,818 retail and consumer chains in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of LongHorn Steakhouse and Culver's.

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
4,818
Tracked stores
8,904
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. Waffle House and LongHorn Steakhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲11 +18.4%
2 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲13 +18.4%
3 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲1 +18.1%
4 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲13 +15.8%
5 C Crew Carwash logo Crew Carwash - +14.3%
6 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲13 +13.6%
7 D Discount Tire logo Discount Tire ▲12 +13.4%
8 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲7 +12.8%
9 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot ▲3 +12.4%
10 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲7 +11.4%
11 A Advance Auto Parts logo Advance Auto Parts ▲12 +10.7%
12 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods - +9.7%
13 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲7 +9.4%
14 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲6 +9.3%
15 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲5 +9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

8,904 tracked store locations in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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