Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 6,596 stores from 3,382 retail chains in Kentucky. Carter's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burlington and Dunham's Sports.

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
3,382
Tracked stores
6,596
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. Carter's and Burlington sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Carter's ▲10 +18.9%
2 Burlington ▲1 +16.8%
3 Dunham's Sports ▲10 +15.3%
4 BoxLunch ▲11 +14.5%
5 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +14.4%
6 Palmetto Moon ▲9 +14.2%
7 Cox's Smokers Outlet ▲4 +12.9%
8 Goodwill ▲2 +12.9%
9 Williams-Sonoma ▲7 +11.8%
10 Marshalls ▲2 +11.7%
11 Pandora ▲8 +11.3%
12 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲4 +10.6%
13 Wright Implement Co. ▲3 +10.6%
14 Cost Plus World Market ▲5 +9.9%
15 Books-A-Million ▲10 +9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

6,596 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,419 of the 6,596 stores (22%); 3,018 of the 3,382 tracked chains have a single store here. 21% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 14% across the United States.

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