Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 4,404 stores from 2,112 retail chains in Minnesota. Best Buy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Level Up Games and Hirshfield's.

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
2,112
Tracked stores
4,404
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. Best Buy and Level Up Games sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Best Buy - +19.1%
2 Level Up Games ▲4 +18.9%
3 Hirshfield's ▲8 +18.7%
4 Helzberg Diamonds ▲11 +15.7%
5 Red Wing ▲6 +15.1%
6 Freewheel Bike ▲7 +15.0%
7 Ace Hardware ▲2 +14.8%
8 Hobby Lobby ▲4 +14.7%
9 HOM Furniture ▲5 +14.7%
10 Once Upon A Child ▲3 +13.4%
11 BomgaarsSupply ▲12 +13.0%
12 Five Below ▲3 +12.9%
13 ERIK'S - Bike Board Ski ▲13 +11.6%
14 The Children's Place ▲9 +11.6%
15 Pawn America ▲4 +11.3%

Store footprint

Store map

4,404 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 587 of the 4,404 stores (13%); 1,828 of the 2,112 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 4% across the United States.

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