Trends · data through September 2026

Department Stores in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 58 stores from 12 department stores in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Macy's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kohl's and JCPenney.

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: 12
Tracked stores: 58
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked department stores

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. Macy's and Kohl's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	M Macy's	-	+2.5%
2	K Kohl's	-	-2.8%
3	J JCPenney	-	-3.9%

Macy's
Kohl's
JCPenney
Boscov's
Belk
Songs Wholesaler
Needful Things Emporium
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

58 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Macy's (19)
Kohl's (21)
JCPenney (9)
Boscov's (1)
Belk (1)
Songs Wholesaler (1)
Needful Things Emporium (1)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

1 K Kohl's 21
2 M Macy's 19
3 J JCPenney 9
4 B Boscov's 1
5 B Belk 1
6 S Songs Wholesaler 1
7 N Needful Things Emporium 1
8 S Sears 1
9 N NEX Bethesda 1
10 L Like On TV 1
11 D Dollar Plus & Mattress 1
12 D Dollar Store Plus Wheaton Mall 1

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