Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in the United States

Iceflower tracks 351,935 stores from 147,951 retail chains in the United States. Cartier grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hobby Lobby and Hermès.

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
147,951
Tracked stores
351,935
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Cartier and Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Cartier ▲23 +19.9%
2 Hobby Lobby ▲1 +19.2%
3 Hermès ▲10 +18.3%
4 Cash America Pawn ▲24 +17.5%
5 CHANEL ▲14 +17.4%
6 Ross Dress for Less - +13.7%
7 Pottery Barn - +13.2%
8 Sierra ▲11 +12.8%
9 Books-A-Million ▲14 +12.8%
10 Uptown Cheapskate ▲11 +12.0%
11 BoxLunch ▲18 +11.7%
12 Altar'd State ▲15 +11.4%
13 Scheels ▲5 +11.3%
14 Micro Center ▲4 +11.2%
15 Value Village ▲10 +10.8%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 351,935 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 48,005 of the 351,935 stores (14%); 134,734 of the 147,951 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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