Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 35,209 stores from 21,339 retail and consumer chains in Kentucky. Jaggers Restaurant grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

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
21,339
Tracked stores
35,209
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. Jaggers Restaurant and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Jaggers Restaurant ▲15 +18.5%
2 Panda Express ▲12 +17.3%
3 Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲14 +15.2%
4 Burlington ▲10 +14.1%
5 FiveStar ▲5 +14.0%
6 Casey's ▲3 +13.5%
7 Murphy USA ▲2 +13.4%
8 UK HealthCare ▲9 +12.3%
9 AAFES ▲10 +11.7%
10 Ross Dress for Less ▲6 +11.7%
11 Cox's Smokers Outlet ▲9 +10.3%
12 Goodwill ▲5 +10.3%
13 Tire Discounters ▲5 +9.8%
14 Dunkin' ▲8 +9.7%
15 Marshalls ▲5 +9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 35,209 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 2,198 of the 35,209 stores (6%); 19,561 of the 21,339 tracked chains have a single store here. 25% of the tracked stores here are in food & drink, against 33% across the United States.

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