Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 25,939 stores from 14,772 retail and consumer chains in Minnesota. Best Buy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BP and Jerry's Foods.

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
14,772
Tracked stores
25,939
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. Best Buy and BP sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Best Buy - +18.6%
2 BP ▲12 +16.5%
3 Jerry's Foods ▲8 +16.4%
4 Cenex ▲8 +16.3%
5 Love's Travel Stop ▲10 +15.7%
6 Ace Hardware ▲8 +14.3%
7 Hobby Lobby ▲10 +14.1%
8 HOM Furniture ▲7 +14.1%
9 Panda Express ▲9 +13.4%
10 Five Below ▲7 +12.4%
11 Kwik Trip - +11.3%
12 Casey's ▲3 +11.2%
13 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲3 +10.5%
14 Mister Car Wash ▲11 +10.3%
15 Harbor Freight Tools ▲2 +9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 25,939 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,422 of the 25,939 stores (5%); 13,450 of the 14,772 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 17% across the United States.

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