Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Rapid City, SD

Iceflower tracks 196 stores from 168 retail chains in Rapid City, SD. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Family Dollar.

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
168
Tracked stores
196
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. Dollar Tree and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar Tree - +19.2%
2 Ace Hardware - +9.2%
3 Family Dollar - -9.2%
  • Discount Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Thrift Stores
  • Gift Shop
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

196 tracked store locations in Rapid City, SD, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 26 of the 196 stores (13%); 156 of the 168 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are gift shops, against 2% across South Dakota.

  • Discount Store (24)
  • Flower Shop (16)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (13)
  • Thrift Stores (11)
  • Gift Shop (10)
  • Sporting Goods Store (9)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (8)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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