Omaha, NE-IA 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. Burlington and Pump & Pantry sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Burlington	▲8	+19.0%
2	Pump & Pantry	▲12	+18.4%
3	Ross Dress for Less	▲6	+17.6%
4	AutoZone	▲5	+17.2%
5	Hobby Lobby	▲4	+17.2%
6	Supermercado Nuestra Familia	▲13	+16.1%
7	Five Below	▲9	+15.6%
8	Firestone Complete Auto Care	▲7	+14.3%
9	Mega Saver	▲3	+14.1%
10	Goodwill	▲6	+13.8%
11	LongHorn Steakhouse	▲11	+12.9%
12	Qdoba	▲9	+12.7%
13	Westlake Ace Hardware	▲8	+12.1%
14	Barnes & Noble	▲7	+11.5%
15	Discount Tire	▲5	+11.3%

Store footprint

Store map

5,177 tracked store locations in Omaha, NE-IA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 316 of the 5,177 stores (6%); 2,920 of the 3,318 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 7% across Nebraska.