Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA

Iceflower tracks 342 stores from 206 retail chains in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA. Sherwin-Williams grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Goodwill and Dollar Tree.

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
206
Tracked stores
342
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. Sherwin-Williams and Goodwill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sherwin-Williams ▲1 +18.7%
2 Goodwill ▲1 +8.2%
3 Dollar Tree - +5.3%
4 Tractor Supply Co. - +4.5%
5 Family Dollar - +4.0%
6 Big Lots ▲1 +1.1%
7 Dollar General - -0.2%
8 Walmart - -0.7%
9 Harbor Freight Tools - -4.3%
10 Maurices ▼1 -9.1%
11 Lowe's Home Improvement - -13.5%
12 Cato Fashions - -15.1%
13 Bath & Body Works - -16.7%
14 Rack Room Shoes ▼2 -19.2%
15 Claire's - -30.4%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Thrift Stores
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

342 tracked store locations in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 94 of the 342 stores (27%); 171 of the 206 tracked chains have a single store here. 27% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 19% across Tennessee.

  • Discount Store (94)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (22)
  • Thrift Stores (16)
  • Home Improvement Center (16)
  • Sporting Goods Store (14)
  • Specialty Store (13)
  • Hardware Store (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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