Knoxville, TN Retail & Consumer Trends 2026: Growth Rankings

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. Outback Steakhouse and Aubrey's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Outback Steakhouse	▲6	+12.9%
2	Aubrey's	▲10	+12.3%
3	Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen	-	+11.7%
4	Y-12 Federal Credit Union	▲2	+11.6%
5	Gondolier Pizza	▲5	+10.3%
6	Jimmy John's	▲6	+9.7%
7	Buddy's Bar-B-Q	▲10	+9.0%
8	PureMagic Carwash	▲3	+8.0%
9	Five Below	▲9	+7.8%
10	Kay Jewelers	▲6	+7.7%
11	Ross Dress for Less	▲6	+7.6%
12	Applebee's Grill + Bar	▲6	+6.7%
13	Circle K	▲4	+6.6%
14	E-Z Stop Food Marts	▲1	+6.5%
15	Hobby Lobby	▲1	+6.4%

Store footprint

Store map

8,447 tracked store locations in Knoxville, TN, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 394 of the 8,447 stores (5%); 5,181 of the 5,730 tracked chains have a single store here.