Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Coach and Five Below sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coach | ▲15 | +18.9% |
| 2 | Five Below | ▲10 | +18.7% |
| 3 | Louis Vuitton | ▲23 | +18.3% |
| 4 | Value Village | ▲14 | +16.6% |
| 5 | Express | ▲12 | +14.3% |
| 6 | Royal Farms | - | +13.9% |
| 7 | Sheetz | - | +13.7% |
| 8 | Tobacco Hut & Vape | ▲13 | +13.5% |
| 9 | Publix | ▲2 | +13.1% |
| 10 | Liberty | ▲10 | +12.9% |
| 11 | Shake Shack | ▲9 | +12.6% |
| 12 | Victoria's Secret | ▲14 | +12.5% |
| 13 | Dollar Tree | ▲5 | +12.5% |
| 14 | Exxon | - | +12.3% |
| 15 | Firestone Complete Auto Care | ▲11 | +11.8% |
Store footprint
Store map
25,000 of 46,906 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,862 of the 46,906 stores (4%); 27,343 of the 30,092 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 6% across District of Columbia.
- Food & Drink (13,895)
- Health & Beauty (10,678)
- Other (6,424)
- Retail (5,881)
- Gas & Auto (4,857)
- Grocery & Convenience (2,703)
- Leisure & Travel (2,409)
- Insurance (59)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Starbucks 467
- 2 7-Eleven 440
- 3 United States Postal Service 339
- 4 CVS Pharmacy 333
- 5 Exxon 283
- 6 McDonald's 275
- 7 Shell 265
- 8 Subway 192
- 9 Sunoco 171
- 10 Dunkin' 159
- 11 Chipotle Mexican Grill 149
- 12 Domino's Pizza 136
- 13 The UPS Store 134
- 14 Giant Food 126
- 15 Virginia ABC 123
- 16 Hair Cuttery 115
- 17 Dollar Tree 113
- 18 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 104
- 19 Papa John's Pizza 104
- 20 Colonial Parking 102
- 21 Safeway 102
- 22 Advance Auto Parts 100
- 23 Walgreens 99
- 24 Wendy's 96
- 25 Taco Bell 92
- 26 Chick-fil-A 90
- 27 Extra Space Storage 88
- 28 Panera Bread 88
- 29 Baskin-Robbins 87
- 30 Burger King 83
- 31 AutoZone 82
- 32 Five Guys 79
- 33 Jersey Mike's Subs 64
- 34 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 60
- 35 ALDI 60
- 36 Dollar General 60
- 37 Wawa 58
- 38 Potbelly Sandwich Shop 57
- 39 Verizon 56
- 40 Tropical Smoothie Cafe 56
- 41 IHOP 54
- 42 Jiffy Lube 54
- 43 CubeSmart Self Storage 54
- 44 Target 53
- 45 Family Dollar 52
- 46 Sheetz 51
- 47 Panda Express 51
- 48 GameStop 51
- 49 Sherwin-Williams 50
- 50 MyEyeDr. 50
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