Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 3,136 stores from 1,157 retail and consumer chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Texas Roadhouse and Caribou Coffee.

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
1,157
Tracked stores
3,136
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. Hobby Lobby and Texas Roadhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲5 +17.8%
2 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲5 +15.6%
3 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲2 +15.3%
4 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲4 +15.1%
5 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲4 +14.5%
6 S SEPHORA logo SEPHORA ▲4 +14.0%
7 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲5 +13.2%
8 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲8 +13.1%
9 H Hy-Vee logo Hy-Vee ▲2 +12.6%
10 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market ▲3 +11.3%
11 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲5 +10.3%
12 C Culver's logo Culver's ▼1 +9.9%
13 C Coborn's Liquor logo Coborn's Liquor ▲1 +9.8%
14 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲3 +9.6%
15 M Menards logo Menards ▲2 +8.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,136 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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