Tuscaloosa, AL Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Shell and American Deli sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Shell	-	+19.6%
2	American Deli	▲3	+19.0%
3	Chevron	-	+13.5%
4	Starbucks	▲5	+13.4%
5	ALDI	-	+8.4%
6	Circle K	-	+7.9%
7	Walmart	-	+5.8%
8	Taco Casa	▲3	+4.0%
9	McDonald's	▲2	+3.3%
10	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲2	+2.5%
11	Hardee's	▲3	+0.4%
12	Chick-fil-A	-	+0.1%
13	Waffle House	▲2	-0.5%
14	Choice Hotels	▲2	-1.1%
15	AutoZone	▲2	-1.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,633 tracked store locations in Tuscaloosa, AL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 116 of the 1,633 stores (7%); 1,105 of the 1,228 tracked chains have a single store here.