Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Mobile, AL

Iceflower tracks 366 stores from 190 retail chains in Mobile, AL. Bealls grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Lowe's Home Improvement.

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
190
Tracked stores
366
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. Bealls and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bealls logo Bealls ▲3 +16.6%
2 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲2 +15.4%
3 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +10.6%
4 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲1 +8.2%
5 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲1 +6.1%
6 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +4.8%
7 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲2 +3.5%
8 C Cato Fashions logo Cato Fashions ▲2 +1.2%
9 W Walmart logo Walmart - -1.5%
10 O Office Depot logo Office Depot - -2.4%
11 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - -2.8%
12 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - -7.0%
13 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar - -8.7%
14 U Up N Smoke - -10.2%
15 H Hibbett Sports logo Hibbett Sports ▼3 -20.9%

Store footprint

Store map

366 tracked store locations in Mobile, AL, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (121)
  • Clothing Store (44)
  • Department Store (24)
  • Smoke Shop (23)
  • Shoe Store (19)
  • Hardware Store (18)
  • Second Hand Shop (17)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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