Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Rochester, MN

Iceflower tracks 178 stores from 144 retail chains in Rochester, MN. Family Dollar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Ace Hardware.

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
144
Tracked stores
178
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. Family Dollar and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Family Dollar - +7.5%
2 Dollar Tree - -9.8%
3 Ace Hardware - -33.7%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Teen & Young Adult Apparel
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands
  • Women's Classic
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

178 tracked store locations in Rochester, MN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 28 of the 178 stores (16%); 128 of the 144 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Discount Store (23)
  • Hardware Store (11)
  • Sporting Goods Store (10)
  • Teen & Young Adult Apparel (6)
  • Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands (6)
  • Women's Classic (6)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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