Trends · data through September 2026

Candy Shops in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 57 stores from 47 candy shop chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV.

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
47
Tracked stores
57
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked candy shop 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.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 IT'SUGAR - -32.7%
  • Star Vending Wholesalers
  • Gateway Candyland
  • Lindt
  • IT'SUGAR
  • Candy World
  • Mangolina
  • The Candy Kitchen
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

57 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 13 of the 57 stores (23%); 40 of the 47 tracked chains have a single store here. 0.4% of the tracked food & drink stores here are candy shops, the same share as across District of Columbia.

  • Star Vending Wholesalers (1)
  • Gateway Candyland (1)
  • Lindt (2)
  • IT'SUGAR (4)
  • Candy World (3)
  • Mangolina (2)
  • The Candy Kitchen (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 IT'SUGAR 4
  • 2 Candy World 3
  • 3 Lindt 2
  • 4 Mangolina 2
  • 5 Lolli and Pops 2
  • 6 See's Candies 2
  • 7 Neuhaus 2
  • 8 Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory 1
  • 9 Cocoa Manna 1
  • 10 House of Chocolate 1
  • 11 Just Ron Chocolate 1
  • 12 Sweet Factory 1
  • 13 Craving for Chocolate 1
  • 14 Mi Dulcifiesta 1
  • 15 ROYCE' Chocolate 1
  • 16 Chocolate Moonshine Co 1
  • 17 Chocolate Chocolate 1
  • 18 King of baklava 1
  • 19 Arcay Chocolates 1
  • 20 Savannah's Candy Kitchen 1
  • 21 Chocolaty 1
  • 22 Ice Cream Sweet Shop 1
  • 23 Tummy Yumyum Gourmet Candy Apples 1
  • 24 Pasha Castle 1
  • 25 Cacao Chaser 1
  • 26 Chesapeake Chocolates 1
  • 27 Dolce And Bean 1
  • 28 Star Vending Wholesalers 1
  • 29 Gateway Candyland 1
  • 30 The Candy Kitchen 1
  • 31 Sweet as Fudge 1
  • 32 Mountaineer Popcorn 1
  • 33 River-Sea Chocolates 1
  • 34 NazBro Chocolates and Fudge 1
  • 35 The Frenchman's Corner of Culpeper 1
  • 36 Rare Morsel 1
  • 37 Popcorn Monkey 1
  • 38 Mocatinas 1
  • 39 Potomac Chocolate 1
  • 40 Sweet Tooth 1
  • 41 Evergreen Sweets 1
  • 42 Jayasri Sweets 1
  • 43 Bethesda Chocolates 1
  • 44 Silky Gem 1
  • 45 Capitol Chocolate Fountains 1
  • 46 The Chocolate House 1
  • 47 The Capital Candy Jar 1

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