Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA

Iceflower tracks 250 stores from 225 retail chains in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA. Goodwill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Target 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
225
Tracked stores
250
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. Goodwill and Target sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Goodwill - +11.3%
2 Target - +5.8%
3 Ace Hardware - +3.2%
4 Dollar Tree - -2.3%
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Specialty Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Other clothing stores
  • Hardware Store
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

250 tracked store locations in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 20 of the 250 stores (8%); 210 of the 225 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 5% across California.

  • Sporting Goods Store (23)
  • Flower Shop (17)
  • Specialty Store (17)
  • Thrift Stores (15)
  • Other clothing stores (14)
  • Hardware Store (13)
  • Women's Contemporary (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Goodwill 5
  • 2 Dollar Tree 5
  • 3 Ace Hardware 4
  • 4 Target 3
  • 5 Ross Dress for Less 3
  • 6 Big 5 Sporting Goods 2
  • 7 The Wishbone Pet Company 2
  • 8 Epicenter Cycling 2
  • 9 Cigar Palace 2
  • 10 Rip Curl 2
  • 11 Staples 2
  • 12 Scarborough Lumber 2
  • 13 Union Grove Music 2
  • 14 San Lorenzo Lumber and Home Centers 2
  • 15 The Home Depot 2
  • 16 Discount Smoke Shop 1
  • 17 Zumiez 1
  • 18 Batteries Plus Bulbs 1
  • 19 Xandra Swimwear 1
  • 20 Moon Kissed 1
  • 21 Level Up Video Games 1
  • 22 Red Wing 1
  • 23 Scotts Valley Feed 1
  • 24 Magnolia Fine Gifts & Gallery 1
  • 25 Santa Cruz Surf Shop 1
  • 26 Santa Cruz Gear Exchange 1
  • 27 Capitola Reef 1
  • 28 Pipeline 1
  • 29 The Hat Co. 1
  • 30 Star Zone Smoke Shop 1
  • 31 SkateWorks 1
  • 32 Game Vault 1
  • 33 Free People 1
  • 34 Wisteria Antiques & Design 1
  • 35 Camouflage 1
  • 36 Creekside Wellness 1
  • 37 Pet Shop Santa Cruz 1
  • 38 Moon Zooom 1
  • 39 Super Silver Capitola 1
  • 40 Outside In 1
  • 41 The Starving Musician 1
  • 42 Kind Peoples 1
  • 43 Old School Shoes 1
  • 44 Graffix Pleasure 1
  • 45 Journeys 1
  • 46 Comicopolis 1
  • 47 Santa Cruz Running Company 1
  • 48 Farmers Defense 1
  • 49 Cowells Beach Surf Shop 1
  • 50 Capitola Seashells 1

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