Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Lafayette, LA

Iceflower tracks 360 stores from 194 retail chains in Lafayette, LA. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tobacco Plus and Lowe's Home Improvement.

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
194
Tracked stores
360
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. Dollar General and Tobacco Plus sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General ▲1 +8.9%
2 Tobacco Plus - +8.8%
3 Lowe's Home Improvement ▲1 +6.6%
4 Dollar Tree - +4.5%
5 Five Below - +3.4%
6 Walmart - -0.8%
7 Goodwill - -1.8%
8 Family Dollar - -2.3%
9 Hibbett Sports - -6.3%
10 The Home Depot ▼2 -7.2%
11 Office Depot - -14.2%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Big-Box & General Merchandise
  • Family & Value Apparel
  • Thrift Stores
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

360 tracked store locations in Lafayette, LA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 126 of the 360 stores (35%); 162 of the 194 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Discount Store (118)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (26)
  • Home Improvement Center (15)
  • Big-Box & General Merchandise (11)
  • Family & Value Apparel (11)
  • Thrift Stores (11)
  • Sporting Goods Store (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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