Montgomery, AL Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. First Watch and American Family Care sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	First Watch	▲10	+18.3%
2	American Family Care	▲3	+18.1%
3	Russell Do It Centers	▲9	+16.6%
4	Exxon	▲4	+16.3%
5	Advance Auto Parts	▲7	+11.9%
6	Raceway	▲5	+11.8%
7	Chevron	▲1	+11.7%
8	Rich's Car Wash	▲6	+11.5%
9	Dollar General	▼1	+10.8%
10	Hobby Lobby	▲3	+10.6%
11	Burger King	▲3	+9.9%
12	GameStop	-	+9.3%
13	Panera Bread	▲2	+8.9%
14	Ross Dress for Less	▲5	+8.9%
15	Sherwin-Williams	▲8	+8.7%

Store footprint

Store map

3,783 tracked store locations in Montgomery, AL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 175 of the 3,783 stores (5%); 2,437 of the 2,735 tracked chains have a single store here. 21% of the tracked stores here are in food & drink, against 26% across Alabama.