Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Lake Charles, LA

Iceflower tracks 223 stores from 124 retail chains in Lake Charles, LA. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Walmart.

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
124
Tracked stores
223
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 Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +8.2%
2 Dollar Tree - +6.1%
3 Walmart - +4.6%
4 Family Dollar - +2.2%
5 Cato Fashions - -7.3%
6 Tractor Supply Co. - -13.8%
7 Shoe Dept. ▲1 -17.6%
8 Hibbett Sports - -41.7%
9 Goodwill ▼1 -47.4%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Family & Value Apparel
  • Big-Box & General Merchandise
  • Thrift Stores
  • Hardware Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

223 tracked store locations in Lake Charles, LA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 84 of the 223 stores (38%); 104 of the 124 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 6% across Louisiana.

  • Discount Store (78)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (18)
  • Family & Value Apparel (10)
  • Big-Box & General Merchandise (9)
  • Thrift Stores (8)
  • Hardware Store (8)
  • Home Improvement Center (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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