Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

Iceflower tracks 2,266 stores from 1,465 retail chains in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Carter's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Craft Warehouse and Staples.

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
1,465
Tracked stores
2,266
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. Carter's and Craft Warehouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Carter's ▲4 +19.5%
2 Craft Warehouse ▲1 +17.9%
3 Staples ▲4 +17.7%
4 Hot Topic ▲4 +15.6%
5 Ross Dress for Less ▲2 +14.7%
6 Famous Footwear ▲4 +14.5%
7 Dollar General ▲3 +12.9%
8 T.J.Maxx ▲4 +12.6%
9 Men's Wearhouse ▲4 +12.2%
10 Big 5 Sporting Goods - +11.6%
11 Top To Bottom - +11.3%
12 HomeGoods ▲4 +11.3%
13 Zumiez ▲4 +11.0%
14 Nike ▲1 +10.6%
15 Cost Plus World Market ▲3 +10.6%

Store footprint

Store map

2,266 tracked store locations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 171 of the 2,266 stores (8%); 1,254 of the 1,465 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 7% across Oregon.

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