Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 17,053 stores from 8,310 retail and consumer chains in Kentucky. Ross Dress for Less grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GameStop and The UPS Store.

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
8,310
Tracked stores
17,053
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. Ross Dress for Less and GameStop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲12 +19.5%
2 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲15 +18.4%
3 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲3 +17.7%
4 M Menards logo Menards ▲6 +17.5%
5 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲15 +17.3%
6 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲10 +16.3%
7 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +16.1%
8 F Frisch's Big Boy logo Frisch's Big Boy - +15.8%
9 C Cinemark logo Cinemark ▲14 +13.8%
10 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲13 +13.4%
11 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲8 +12.6%
12 C Casey's logo Casey's ▲8 +11.8%
13 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲7 +11.6%
14 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲5 +10.9%
15 T Toyota ▲7 +10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

17,053 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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