Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

Iceflower tracks 81 stores from 51 retail chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. PetSmart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ross Dress for Less and Target.

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
51
Tracked stores
81
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. PetSmart and Ross Dress for Less sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P PetSmart logo PetSmart - +14.2%
2 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +8.8%
3 T Target logo Target - +3.0%
4 W Walmart logo Walmart - -0.0%
5 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - -3.2%
6 M Michaels logo Michaels - -3.6%
7 P Petco logo Petco - -14.8%
  • Department Store
  • Clothing Store
  • Pet Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Discount Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Second Hand Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Department Store (15)
  • Clothing Store (12)
  • Pet Store (8)
  • Hardware Store (7)
  • Discount Store (7)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (5)
  • Second Hand Shop (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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