Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Iceflower tracks 2,022 stores from 1,282 retail chains in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN. Cox's Smokers Outlet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Popular Smoke and Vape and Ross Dress for Less.

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
1,282
Tracked stores
2,022
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. Cox's Smokers Outlet and Popular Smoke and Vape sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Cox's Smokers Outlet ▲2 +16.8%
2 Popular Smoke and Vape ▲3 +16.7%
3 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +15.0%
4 Batteries Plus Bulbs - +14.5%
5 PPG Paints ▲9 +13.6%
6 Rally House ▲5 +12.7%
7 Victoria's Secret ▲3 +12.2%
8 Marshalls - +11.9%
9 Barnes & Noble ▲1 +10.4%
10 Men's Wearhouse ▲1 +9.5%
11 Michaels ▲1 +8.6%
12 Once Upon A Child ▲5 +7.6%
13 Lids ▲4 +7.3%
14 Kirkland's ▲1 +6.5%
15 Ashley HomeStore ▲3 +6.5%

Store footprint

Store map

2,022 tracked store locations in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 283 of the 2,022 stores (14%); 1,113 of the 1,282 tracked chains have a single store here. 14% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 21% across Kentucky.

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