Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 553 stores from 165 retail chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Michaels and HomeGoods.

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
165
Tracked stores
553
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. Hobby Lobby and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +18.2%
2 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲2 +14.9%
3 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲1 +13.6%
4 H Half Price Books logo Half Price Books - +11.1%
5 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲2 +10.7%
6 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲1 +9.9%
7 M Menards logo Menards - +9.2%
8 P Petco logo Petco ▲2 +8.6%
9 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods ▲1 +7.1%
10 S Sierra logo Sierra - +6.8%
11 W Walmart logo Walmart - +6.4%
12 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲1 +5.4%
13 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +5.1%
14 K Kohl's logo Kohl's - +4.1%
15 O Old Navy logo Old Navy ▲1 +2.9%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

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