Trends · data through September 2026

Other trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 6,424 stores from 4,595 other chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. District Camera and Imaging grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Capital Electric and Self Storage Plus.

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
4,595
Tracked stores
6,424
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked other 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. District Camera and Imaging and Capital Electric sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 District Camera and Imaging ▲6 +18.8%
2 Capital Electric ▲7 +16.1%
3 Self Storage Plus ▲1 +15.7%
4 Library of Congress ▲2 +14.3%
5 VFW - +13.5%
6 Rexel ▲6 +13.0%
7 Southern States ▲1 +12.6%
8 Maryland MVA ▲3 +12.4%
9 Extra Space Storage - +12.4%
10 CubeSmart Self Storage - +10.7%
11 Builders FirstSource ▲3 +10.7%
12 Cricket Wireless ▲2 +10.6%
13 The Maids ▲3 +6.2%
14 Festival Cleaners ▲2 +6.2%
15 R.E. Michel Company ▲1 +4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

6,424 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 783 of the 6,424 stores (12%); 4,348 of the 4,595 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked other stores here are government offices, against 5% across District of Columbia.

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