Trends · data through September 2026

Pet Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 11,439 stores from 5,108 pet store chains in the United States. Pet World Warehouse Outlet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Steinhauser's and Animal Kingdom.

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
5,108
Tracked stores
11,439
Consumer panel
130M+

State by state

The leading pet store chains in every state

Tracked pet store chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. PetSmart leads in 36 states and DC, Petco in 13 states, and Feeders Pet Supply in 1 state. Against their share in the US as a whole, Petco stands out in 19 states and DC, PetSmart in 11 states, and Pet Supplies Plus in 9 states.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pet store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to the US compares a chain's share of the state's spend with its share in the US as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in the US and the chains that lead a state by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pet store 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. Pet World Warehouse Outlet and Steinhauser's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Pet World Warehouse Outlet ▲8 +19.0%
2 Steinhauser's ▲9 +18.8%
3 Animal Kingdom ▲8 +18.0%
4 Premier Pet Supply ▲1 +16.0%
5 All The Best Pet Care ▲5 +15.3%
6 Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies ▲1 +15.0%
7 Creature Comforts ▲13 +14.9%
8 Pet Food Express - +11.6%
9 Kriser's Natural Pet ▲13 +11.3%
10 Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming ▲2 +10.6%
11 IB Pet ▲1 +9.5%
12 Pet Goods ▲5 +9.5%
13 Just For Pets ▲3 +8.4%
14 Mutts & Co. ▲6 +7.6%
15 Red Barn ▲6 +7.2%
  • PetSmart
  • Petco
  • Pet Supplies Plus
  • Pet Supermarket
  • Hollywood Feed
  • Petsense by Tractor Supply
  • Feeders Pet Supply
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

11,439 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 4,287 of the 11,439 stores (37%); 4,641 of the 5,108 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • PetSmart (1,595)
  • Petco (1,466)
  • Pet Supplies Plus (634)
  • Pet Supermarket (244)
  • Hollywood Feed (182)
  • Petsense by Tractor Supply (212)
  • Feeders Pet Supply (52)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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