Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

Iceflower tracks 636 stores from 430 retail and consumer chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. Lighthouse Coffee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of PetSmart and Walgreens.

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
430
Tracked stores
636
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. Lighthouse Coffee and PetSmart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lighthouse Coffee - +17.7%
2 P PetSmart logo PetSmart ▲5 +16.9%
3 W Walgreens logo Walgreens ▲4 +13.9%
4 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲5 +11.4%
5 T Target logo Target - +5.4%
6 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲1 +3.0%
7 W Walmart logo Walmart - +2.3%
8 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 -0.4%
9 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - -0.9%
10 J Jeannine's Restaurant & Bakery ▲1 -1.1%
11 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill - -1.2%
12 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲3 -1.3%
13 C Costco logo Costco - -1.4%
14 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee - -1.5%
15 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲1 -2.3%

Store footprint

Store map

636 tracked store locations in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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