Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Tennessee

Iceflower tracks 55,133 stores from 32,418 retail and consumer chains in Tennessee. Burlington grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Y-12 Federal Credit Union and Waffle House.

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
32,418
Tracked stores
55,133
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. Burlington and Y-12 Federal Credit Union sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Burlington ▲10 +14.8%
2 Y-12 Federal Credit Union ▲10 +14.3%
3 Waffle House ▲10 +14.0%
4 Goodwill ▲11 +12.8%
5 Sprouts Farmers Market ▲11 +12.6%
6 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲9 +11.9%
7 Thorntons ▲5 +11.6%
8 Dutch Bros Coffee ▲11 +11.4%
9 Wyatt Johnson Automotive Group ▲13 +11.3%
10 Fast Stop ▲18 +11.1%
11 Aubrey's ▲7 +11.1%
12 BJ's Wholesale Club ▲5 +10.9%
13 Hobby Lobby ▲6 +10.9%
14 Raceway ▲6 +9.8%
15 Barnes & Noble ▲12 +9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 55,133 tracked store locations in Tennessee, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 2,815 of the 55,133 stores (5%); 29,497 of the 32,418 tracked chains have a single store here.

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