Salem, OR 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. Goodwill and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Goodwill	▲4	+12.1%
2	Subway	▲7	+11.7%
3	Denny's	▲4	+9.8%
4	Bath & Body Works	▲3	+8.7%
5	Plaid Pantry	▲4	+5.9%
6	Ross Dress for Less	▲1	+5.9%
7	Panda Express	▲1	+5.8%
8	WinCo	-	+5.2%
9	Jiffy Lube	▲2	+2.8%
10	Ace Hardware	▲1	+1.7%
11	Dutch Bros Coffee	▲3	+1.5%
12	Circle K	-	+1.1%
13	Chevron	▲2	+0.9%
14	Walgreens	▲3	+0.9%
15	Dollar General	▲3	+0.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,096 tracked store locations in Salem, OR, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 94 of the 2,096 stores (4%); 1,420 of the 1,571 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 6% across Oregon.