Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

Iceflower tracks 18,088 stores from 11,459 retail and consumer chains in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. Love's Travel Stop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hobby Lobby and P. Terry's Burger Stand.

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
11,459
Tracked stores
18,088
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Love's Travel Stop and Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Love's Travel Stop ▲11 +19.2%
2 Hobby Lobby ▲6 +16.1%
3 P. Terry's Burger Stand ▲8 +16.1%
4 Cash America Pawn ▲23 +13.2%
5 Five Below ▲8 +12.8%
6 Dutch Bros Coffee ▲6 +11.0%
7 Luby's ▲11 +10.6%
8 CPS Energy ▲3 +10.3%
9 QuikTrip ▲1 +9.9%
10 Exxon ▲14 +9.9%
11 H-E-B Car Wash - +9.5%
12 The Wash Tub ▲9 +9.4%
13 Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods ▲1 +9.1%
14 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲4 +8.9%
15 dd's DISCOUNTS ▲7 +8.9%

Store footprint

Store map

18,088 tracked store locations in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 741 of the 18,088 stores (4%); 10,360 of the 11,459 tracked chains have a single store here.

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