Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Merced, CA

Iceflower tracks 1,215 stores from 879 retail and consumer chains in Merced, CA. ampm grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General and ARCO.

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
879
Tracked stores
1,215
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. ampm and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 ampm ▲1 +18.0%
2 Dollar General ▲2 +12.7%
3 ARCO - +10.3%
4 Big 5 Sporting Goods ▲4 +10.2%
5 Burger King ▲5 +8.3%
6 Chevron ▲1 +6.8%
7 Tractor Supply Co. - +6.7%
8 Dutch Bros Coffee - +6.4%
9 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▼1 +6.2%
10 Mister Car Wash ▲2 +5.5%
11 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲3 +3.6%
12 Starbucks - +3.5%
13 Save Mart ▲1 +3.0%
14 7-Eleven - +1.2%
15 Panda Express ▲1 +1.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,215 tracked store locations in Merced, CA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 76 of the 1,215 stores (6%); 758 of the 879 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 7% across California.

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