Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 6,458 stores from 3,424 retail chains in Maryland. Coach grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Five Below and Hobby Lobby.

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
3,424
Tracked stores
6,458
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. Coach and Five Below sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Coach ▲6 +20.0%
2 Five Below ▲3 +19.1%
3 Hobby Lobby ▲1 +19.1%
4 BoxLunch ▲10 +18.5%
5 Barnes & Noble ▲3 +17.5%
6 dd's DISCOUNTS ▲5 +15.2%
7 Ross Dress for Less - +14.8%
8 Express ▲13 +14.6%
9 BOSS Store ▲11 +14.5%
10 Harbor Freight Tools ▲2 +14.5%
11 Regency Furniture ▲4 +13.7%
12 Ashley HomeStore ▲5 +13.7%
13 Dollar Tree ▲1 +12.8%
14 Michaels ▲1 +11.1%
15 Burlington - +10.4%

Store footprint

Store map

6,458 tracked store locations in Maryland, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 580 of the 6,458 stores (9%); 2,972 of the 3,424 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 14% across the United States.

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