Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Iceflower tracks 2,978 stores from 1,702 retail chains in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Lids grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Uniqlo and BoxLunch.

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
1,702
Tracked stores
2,978
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. Lids and Uniqlo sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Lids ▲8 +17.6%
2 Uniqlo ▲3 +17.4%
3 BoxLunch ▲8 +17.0%
4 Staples ▲4 +13.8%
5 Sunglass Hut ▲8 +13.1%
6 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +12.5%
7 Puetz Golf Superstores ▲1 +12.0%
8 Third Place Books ▲4 +11.5%
9 Plato's Closet ▲4 +11.0%
10 Piercing Pagoda ▲8 +11.0%
11 Banana Republic ▲4 +10.2%
12 Carter's ▲7 +10.2%
13 Michaels ▲2 +9.5%
14 Hallmark ▲5 +9.4%
15 All The Best Pet Care ▲7 +9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

2,978 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 194 of the 2,978 stores (7%); 1,421 of the 1,702 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are specialty stores, against 5% across Washington.

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