Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Waco, TX

Iceflower tracks 368 stores from 269 retail chains in Waco, TX. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Dollar General.

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
269
Tracked stores
368
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. Ace Hardware and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware - +7.8%
2 Dollar Tree - +6.6%
3 Dollar General - +3.4%
4 Walmart - +0.1%
5 Family Dollar - -4.7%
6 Office Depot - -21.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Hardware Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Specialty Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Pet Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

368 tracked store locations in Waco, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 80 of the 368 stores (22%); 245 of the 269 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 3% across Texas.

  • Discount Store (74)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (23)
  • Hardware Store (20)
  • Thrift Stores (17)
  • Specialty Store (14)
  • Home Improvement Center (12)
  • Pet Store (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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