Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 4,390 stores from 1,420 retail and consumer chains in Minnesota. Dollar Tree 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
1,420
Tracked stores
4,390
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. Dollar Tree and Five Below sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲7 +18.9%
2 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲10 +17.4%
3 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲7 +15.5%
4 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲4 +14.7%
5 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲3 +14.7%
6 S SEPHORA logo SEPHORA ▲10 +13.5%
7 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲5 +13.3%
8 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲2 +12.9%
9 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲9 +12.6%
10 F Fresh Thyme Market logo Fresh Thyme Market ▲7 +12.4%
11 F Fareway logo Fareway ▲7 +12.0%
12 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲8 +10.6%
13 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲4 +10.2%
14 R Runnings logo Runnings ▲7 +9.9%
15 F Festival Foods logo Festival Foods ▲6 +9.5%

Store footprint

Store map

4,390 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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