Trends · data through June 2026

Shoe Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 5,771 stores from 465 shoe stores chains in the United States. Timberland grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Road Runner Sports and Steve Madden.

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
465
Tracked stores
5,771
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked shoe stores 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. Timberland and Road Runner Sports sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Timberland logo Timberland ▲5 +18.9%
2 R Road Runner Sports logo Road Runner Sports ▲1 +18.5%
3 S Steve Madden logo Steve Madden ▲3 +18.3%
4 B Boot Barn logo Boot Barn ▲1 +16.3%
5 U Underground Station +16.3%
6 D DTLR logo DTLR ▲2 +15.9%
7 T The Athlete's Foot logo The Athlete's Foot ▲2 +15.7%
8 A ALDO logo ALDO +14.5%
9 S SHU DEAL ▲1 +13.0%
10 S Shoe City logo Shoe City +13.0%
11 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▲2 +12.1%
12 B Birkenstock logo Birkenstock ▲3 +11.7%
13 B Boot World logo Boot World ▲3 +10.4%
14 C Cavender's logo Cavender's ▲3 +10.0%
15 S Second Sole ▲4 +9.5%
  • Foot Locker
  • Boot Barn
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse
  • JD Sports
  • Journeys
  • Famous Footwear
  • Shoe Carnival
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

5,771 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Foot Locker (414)
  • Boot Barn (307)
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse (331)
  • JD Sports (236)
  • Journeys (378)
  • Famous Footwear (394)
  • Shoe Carnival (275)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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