Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 26,389 stores from 17,317 retail and consumer chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ross Dress for Less and Barnes & Noble.

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
17,317
Tracked stores
26,389
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. Hobby Lobby and Ross Dress for Less sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Hobby Lobby ▲16 +19.5%
2 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +19.4%
3 Barnes & Noble ▲15 +18.7%
4 Panda Express ▲18 +17.4%
5 ALDI ▲2 +16.3%
6 Five Below ▲11 +15.5%
7 Baskin-Robbins ▲15 +15.4%
8 BJ's Wholesale Club ▲5 +12.3%
9 Rooms To Go ▲9 +12.2%
10 DICK'S Sporting Goods ▲5 +12.1%
11 Steak 'n Shake ▲8 +12.0%
12 Culver's ▲4 +11.0%
13 Circle K ▲3 +10.8%
14 Dollar Tree - +10.7%
15 Men's Wearhouse ▲9 +10.2%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 26,389 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 777 of the 26,389 stores (3%); 15,736 of the 17,317 tracked chains have a single store here.

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