Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Montana

Iceflower tracks 330 stores from 142 retail chains in Montana. Best Buy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tractor Supply Co. and Ace Hardware.

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
142
Tracked stores
330
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 Tractor Supply Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Best Buy logo Best Buy ▲1 +19.2%
2 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲2 +15.7%
3 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - +13.5%
4 M Murdoch's Ranch & Home Supply logo Murdoch's Ranch & Home Supply - +10.4%
5 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby - +8.4%
6 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +4.4%
7 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲1 +4.3%
8 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +2.9%
9 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +0.9%
10 S Staples logo Staples - -0.3%
11 S Scheels logo Scheels - -0.4%
12 W Walmart logo Walmart - -1.2%
13 O Old Navy logo Old Navy - -1.8%
14 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - -2.0%
15 K Kohl's logo Kohl's ▲1 -2.0%

Store footprint

Store map

330 tracked store locations in Montana, colored by category.

  • Department Store (59)
  • Hardware Store (45)
  • Discount Store (38)
  • Clothing Store (23)
  • Pet Store (21)
  • Home Improvement Center (20)
  • Sporting Goods Store (19)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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