Montana 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. Riddle's Jewelry and Tractor Supply Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Riddle's Jewelry	▲6	+17.0%
2	Tractor Supply Co.	▲7	+16.5%
3	Little Caesars	▲4	+16.2%
4	Great Clips	▲5	+15.9%
5	Ace Hardware	▲1	+15.9%
6	Chick-fil-A	▲6	+15.0%
7	U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer	▲8	+14.3%
8	Panda Express	▲8	+13.6%
9	Hobby Lobby	▲6	+13.5%
10	Five Guys	▲10	+11.8%
11	Burger King	▲6	+11.0%
12	Chipotle Mexican Grill	▲11	+10.6%
13	IHOP	▲2	+9.9%
14	Starbucks	▲3	+9.3%
15	Arby's	▲7	+9.3%

Store footprint

Store map

7,236 tracked store locations in Montana, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 445 of the 7,236 stores (6%); 4,575 of the 5,017 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across the United States.