Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Lexington-Fayette, KY

Iceflower tracks 803 stores from 594 retail chains in Lexington-Fayette, KY. Burlington grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kay Jewelers and Five Below.

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
594
Tracked stores
803
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. Burlington and Kay Jewelers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Burlington ▲1 +19.7%
2 Kay Jewelers ▲1 +19.4%
3 Five Below - +18.7%
4 Ross Dress for Less ▲2 +17.2%
5 Dollar Tree ▲1 +14.8%
6 The Castle Jewelry and Pawn - +6.6%
7 Dollar General ▼1 +6.0%
8 Farrell-Calhoun Paint - +5.5%
9 Target - +4.4%
10 Goodwill - +3.8%
11 Barnes & Noble - +2.1%
12 Feeders Pet Supply ▲1 +1.0%
13 Lowe's Home Improvement - +0.9%
14 Walmart - +0.2%
15 Staples ▼1 +0.2%

Store footprint

Store map

803 tracked store locations in Lexington-Fayette, KY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 84 of the 803 stores (10%); 504 of the 594 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 21% across Kentucky.

Top tracked chains by store count

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