Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

Iceflower tracks 1,139 stores from 742 retail chains in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rainbow Shops and Marshalls.

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
742
Tracked stores
1,139
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. Five Below and Rainbow Shops sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Five Below ▲1 +19.4%
2 Rainbow Shops ▲3 +16.7%
3 Marshalls ▲1 +16.5%
4 Journeys ▲2 +16.3%
5 Citi Trends - +15.4%
6 Sherwin-Williams ▲2 +15.3%
7 Ra Shop ▲1 +12.0%
8 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +9.6%
9 T.J.Maxx - +7.9%
10 Spirit Halloween ▲2 +6.6%
11 SKECHERS ▲1 +6.6%
12 Barnes & Noble ▲3 +5.0%
13 Lowe's Home Improvement - +3.4%
14 Family Dollar - +1.5%
15 Harbor Freight Tools - +1.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,139 tracked store locations in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 179 of the 1,139 stores (16%); 630 of the 742 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 29% across Louisiana.

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