Minot, ND Retail & Consumer Trends 2026: Growth Rankings

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. Dairy Queen and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Dairy Queen	-	+6.6%
2	Burger King	-	+6.5%
3	Caribou Coffee	-	+5.1%
4	Starbucks	-	+1.9%
5	Dollar General	-	-0.9%
6	Shell	-	-1.1%
7	Cenex	-	-1.4%
8	Marketplace Foods	-	-2.1%
9	McDonald's	-	-6.5%
10	Exxon	-	-9.5%

Store footprint

Store map

468 tracked store locations in Minot, ND, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 35 of the 468 stores (7%); 381 of the 406 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 7% across North Dakota.