Trends · data through September 2026

Specialty Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 15,613 stores from 14,125 specialty store chains in the United States. Burke Equipment Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Family Tree Nursery and Kelly's Pharmacy.

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
14,125
Tracked stores
15,613
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty 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. Burke Equipment Company and Family Tree Nursery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Burke Equipment Company ▲6 +16.5%
2 Family Tree Nursery ▲5 +14.7%
3 Kelly's Pharmacy ▲1 +11.6%
4 The Pool Company ▲3 +10.2%
5 The Cannabis Factory ▲4 +9.9%
6 Fireworks Nation ▲4 +9.0%
7 Army Surplus Warehouse ▲2 +8.3%
8 Vape and Smoke Shop ▲2 +7.2%
9 CVS Speciality ▼1 +5.1%
10 Rodney's Rockets Fireworks Supercenter ▲1 +4.6%
11 Bountiful Gardens - +3.1%
12 The Floor Store - +2.6%
13 Alpine Lumber Company - -1.5%
14 Mackey's - -4.3%
15 Portman's Music Superstore ▼5 -4.6%
  • Meijer Garden Center
  • Beauti Full
  • The Floor Store
  • Mackey's
  • DRS Inc
  • HSN Home Improvement
  • Down To Earth Home and Garden
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

15,613 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 26 of the 15,613 stores (0.2%); 13,189 of the 14,125 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Meijer Garden Center (1)
  • Beauti Full (1)
  • The Floor Store (5)
  • Mackey's (3)
  • DRS Inc (1)
  • HSN Home Improvement (1)
  • Down To Earth Home and Garden (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Alpine Lumber Company 6
  • 2 Sol Flower 6
  • 3 The Floor Store 5
  • 4 Pool & Electrical Products 5
  • 5 Rodney's Rockets Fireworks Supercenter 4
  • 6 ABC Rental Center 4
  • 7 CVS Speciality 4
  • 8 Palms Pharmacy 4
  • 9 Vape and Smoke Shop 4
  • 10 West Music 3
  • 11 Burke Equipment Company 3
  • 12 Bountiful Gardens 3
  • 13 The Hemp Doctor 3
  • 14 Portman's Music Superstore 3
  • 15 Marine Trading Post 3
  • 16 Family Tree Nursery 3
  • 17 Mendham Garden Center 3
  • 18 The Cannabis Factory 3
  • 19 The Sod Lot 3
  • 20 Plant World 3
  • 21 Joe's Market Basket 3
  • 22 Army Surplus Warehouse 3
  • 23 Mackey's 3
  • 24 Wacky Wayne's Fireworks 3
  • 25 Kelly's Pharmacy 3
  • 26 The Pool Company 3
  • 27 Vape Hut 3
  • 28 Fireworks Nation 3
  • 29 Home Grown 3
  • 30 City Plumbing & Electric Supply 2
  • 31 Inline Lighting 2
  • 32 Stadler Nurseries 2
  • 33 Skagit Farmers Country Store 2
  • 34 Alvey Lumber 2
  • 35 Ken's Sports 2
  • 36 Pilot Lumber Bellevue 2
  • 37 Piano Gallery Music Superstore 2
  • 38 Beacock Music 2
  • 39 Clear Sky Cannabis 2
  • 40 Cna Stores 2
  • 41 Katy Furniture 2
  • 42 Stuckey's Greenhouses 2
  • 43 Rochester 2
  • 44 Gadsden Music Company 2
  • 45 A & G Turf Equipment 2
  • 46 Healdsburg Lumber Co. 2
  • 47 Kemper Home Furnishings 2
  • 48 Crazy Pipes & Vapes 2
  • 49 Skillin's Greenhouses 2
  • 50 The Mulch Center 2

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