Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 340 stores from 40 discount store chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Dollar City.

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
40
Tracked stores
340
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount 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. Five Below and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Five Below ▲1 +11.0%
2 Dollar Tree - +5.2%
3 Dollar City - -2.6%
4 Black Friday Daily Deals ▲1 -4.5%
5 Dollar General ▼1 -5.1%
6 Family Dollar - -5.9%
7 Ollie's Bargain Outlet - -6.4%
8 Dollar Plus - -29.2%
9 Big Lots ▼1 -71.2%
  • Dollar Tree
  • Five Below
  • Dollar General
  • Family Dollar
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet
  • Roses Discount Store
  • Black Friday Daily Deals
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

340 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 287 of the 340 stores (84%); 28 of the 40 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 3% across District of Columbia.

  • Dollar Tree (113)
  • Five Below (48)
  • Dollar General (60)
  • Family Dollar (52)
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet (6)
  • Roses Discount Store (2)
  • Black Friday Daily Deals (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Dollar Tree 113
  • 2 Dollar General 60
  • 3 Family Dollar 52
  • 4 Five Below 48
  • 5 Big Lots 14
  • 6 Ollie's Bargain Outlet 6
  • 7 Black Friday Daily Deals 5
  • 8 Dollar City 5
  • 9 Dollar Plus 3
  • 10 Dollar & More 2
  • 11 Value Dollar 2
  • 12 Roses Discount Store 2
  • 13 Capital Discount Furniture 1
  • 14 Dollar Plus Market 1
  • 15 Dollar Star 1
  • 16 Discount Depot 1
  • 17 Discount DEALZ 1
  • 18 Low Price Store 1
  • 19 Variedades Cristina LLC. 1
  • 20 Dollar Power 1
  • 21 Tucker Tribe LLC Bin Store 1
  • 22 Dollar Outlet 1
  • 23 Bintastic 1
  • 24 Dollar Place 1
  • 25 Dollars & Gifts 1
  • 26 Kimberly's Overflow Store Front 1
  • 27 Dollar Depot 1
  • 28 Dollar 1 1
  • 29 Dollar Zone Plus 1
  • 30 Dollar & Beyond 1
  • 31 Liquidation Nation DC 1
  • 32 Dollar Century Plus 1
  • 33 Dollar & Sence 1
  • 34 Dollar Buys 1
  • 35 DMV Appliances Outlet 1
  • 36 King Discount Beauty 1
  • 37 Pawn King 1
  • 38 Bargain Bin 1
  • 39 Hollin Hall Variety Store 1
  • 40 Black Friday Outlet 1

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