Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in State College, PA

Iceflower tracks 1,075 stores from 899 retail and consumer chains in State College, PA. Kwik Fill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Snappy's and Dollar General.

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
899
Tracked stores
1,075
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. Kwik Fill and Snappy's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Kwik Fill ▲1 +15.5%
2 Snappy's ▲1 +12.4%
3 Dollar General ▲1 +11.4%
4 Sheetz - +7.8%
5 Fine Wine & Good Spirits - +7.7%
6 Brothers Pizza - +7.4%
7 Uni-Mart - +5.2%
8 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲1 +4.3%
9 Exxon ▲2 +2.5%
10 Weis Markets - +2.2%
11 United States Postal Service ▲3 +2.2%
12 Starbucks ▲1 +0.7%
13 McDonald's - -0.4%
14 GIANT - -0.5%
15 CVS Pharmacy - -2.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,075 tracked store locations in State College, PA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 60 of the 1,075 stores (6%); 835 of the 899 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across Pennsylvania.

Top tracked chains by store count

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