Trends · data through June 2026

Specialty Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 5,296 stores from 2,884 specialty stores chains in the United States. Green Thumb Nursery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Pennsylvania Lottery and Armstrong Garden Centers.

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
2,884
Tracked stores
5,296
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty 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. Green Thumb Nursery and Pennsylvania Lottery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Green Thumb Nursery ▲5 +19.9%
2 P Pennsylvania Lottery logo Pennsylvania Lottery ▲3 +19.5%
3 A Armstrong Garden Centers ▲5 +15.3%
4 S SummerWinds Nursery ▲4 +12.7%
5 P Phelps Nursery ▲5 +11.3%
6 B Benjamin Moore logo Benjamin Moore ▲3 +11.1%
7 F Firearms Unknown ▲6 +10.4%
8 L Le Creuset Outlet Store logo Le Creuset Outlet Store ▲3 +9.6%
9 G Grower's Outlet ▲2 +8.7%
10 S Strader's Garden Center ▲3 +7.6%
11 V Virginia Lottery logo Virginia Lottery +7.2%
12 G Grange Co-op ▲3 +7.0%
13 D DIY Home Center logo DIY Home Center ▲7 +5.5%
14 C Cost Plus World Market logo Cost Plus World Market ▲1 +5.5%
15 P Party Place +4.2%
  • Walmart Garden Center
  • Guitar Center
  • Cost Plus World Market
  • Pinch A Penny Pool Patio Spa
  • Leslie's Pool Supplies
  • Party City
  • Williams-Sonoma
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

5,296 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Walmart Garden Center (108)
  • Guitar Center (221)
  • Cost Plus World Market (157)
  • Pinch A Penny Pool Patio Spa (179)
  • Leslie's Pool Supplies (199)
  • Party City (504)
  • Williams-Sonoma (92)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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