Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Kansas City, MO-KS

Iceflower tracks 1,723 stores from 780 retail chains in Kansas City, MO-KS. Rainbow Shops grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Spirit Halloween and Hobby Lobby.

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
780
Tracked stores
1,723
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. Rainbow Shops and Spirit Halloween sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Rainbow Shops ▲6 +19.7%
2 Spirit Halloween ▲5 +19.6%
3 Hobby Lobby ▲3 +19.0%
4 Altar'd State ▲7 +18.0%
5 Victoria's Secret ▲4 +16.0%
6 Aéropostale ▲5 +14.1%
7 Ross Dress for Less - +14.1%
8 BomgaarsSupply ▲4 +14.1%
9 Boot Barn ▲4 +14.1%
10 Spencer's ▲4 +13.9%
11 Half Price Books ▲5 +13.7%
12 HomeGoods - +13.0%
13 Burlington ▲2 +12.7%
14 Red Racks Thrift Stores ▲2 +11.7%
15 The Children's Place - +10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,723 tracked store locations in Kansas City, MO-KS, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 308 of the 1,723 stores (18%); 604 of the 780 tracked chains have a single store here. 16% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 21% across Missouri.

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