Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Mobile, AL

Iceflower tracks 647 stores from 431 retail chains in Mobile, AL. Citi Trends grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Michaels and Rainbow Shops.

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
431
Tracked stores
647
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. Citi Trends and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Citi Trends ▲1 +19.6%
2 Michaels - +9.9%
3 Rainbow Shops ▲2 +9.8%
4 Dollar Tree - +2.4%
5 Dollar General - +2.0%
6 Sherwin-Williams - +1.3%
7 Walmart - +0.3%
8 Bealls - -0.1%
9 Cato Fashions ▲1 -1.0%
10 Ace Hardware - -1.5%
11 Lowe's Home Improvement - -1.5%
12 Pronto Pawn ▲1 -3.8%
13 Shoe Show ▲1 -6.1%
14 Family Dollar - -8.5%
15 Office Depot ▲1 -9.5%

Store footprint

Store map

647 tracked store locations in Mobile, AL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 148 of the 647 stores (23%); 383 of the 431 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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