Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Iceflower tracks 6,166 stores from 3,211 retail chains in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. dd's DISCOUNTS grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ross Dress for Less and T.J.Maxx.

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
3,211
Tracked stores
6,166
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. dd's DISCOUNTS and Ross Dress for Less sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 dd's DISCOUNTS ▲9 +18.1%
2 Ross Dress for Less ▲2 +17.3%
3 T.J.Maxx ▲1 +16.2%
4 Phantom Fireworks ▲13 +16.2%
5 J&L Building Materials ▲7 +15.3%
6 Jared ▲16 +14.5%
7 Hallmark ▲8 +13.8%
8 Norman's Hallmark Shop ▲6 +13.6%
9 Pure Hockey ▲13 +11.3%
10 Harbor Freight Tools ▲3 +11.1%
11 Smokin' Joe's Tobacco Shop ▲10 +10.6%
12 Carter's ▲2 +10.0%
13 Gap ▲5 +9.5%
14 Dollar Tree - +9.4%
15 Express ▲3 +9.3%

Store footprint

Store map

6,166 tracked store locations in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 635 of the 6,166 stores (10%); 2,807 of the 3,211 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 14% across Pennsylvania.

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