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. Hobby Lobby and Goodwill sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby Lobby | - | +16.6% |
| 2 | Goodwill | ▲7 | +14.4% |
| 3 | Advance Auto Parts | ▲3 | +10.8% |
| 4 | O'Reilly Auto Parts | ▲3 | +9.1% |
| 5 | Kwik Stop | - | +8.9% |
| 6 | Casey's General Store | ▲1 | +8.3% |
| 7 | Kwik Trip | - | +5.4% |
| 8 | AutoZone | ▲2 | +5.2% |
| 9 | Arby's | ▲1 | +5.1% |
| 10 | Dollar Tree | - | +4.4% |
| 11 | Casey's | - | +4.0% |
| 12 | CVS Pharmacy | ▲2 | +3.8% |
| 13 | Scooter's Coffee | ▲2 | +3.7% |
| 14 | Dollar General | ▼1 | +3.5% |
| 15 | Fareway | - | +3.4% |
Store footprint
Store map
1,622 tracked store locations in Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 102 of the 1,622 stores (6%); 1,203 of the 1,317 tracked chains have a single store here. 20% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 15% across Iowa.
- Food & Drink (401)
- Health & Beauty (320)
- Retail (274)
- Other (226)
- Gas & Auto (217)
- Leisure & Travel (93)
- Grocery & Convenience (87)
- Insurance (4)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Kwik Trip 23
- 2 Casey's 23
- 3 United States Postal Service 22
- 4 Dollar General 21
- 5 Subway 13
- 6 Hy-Vee 10
- 7 McDonald's 9
- 8 Dollar Tree 8
- 9 Jimmy John's 6
- 10 Family Dollar 6
- 11 Starbucks 6
- 12 Burger King 6
- 13 Dairy Queen 6
- 14 Casey's General Store 5
- 15 Goodwill 5
- 16 Walgreens 5
- 17 Taco Bell 5
- 18 Great Clips 5
- 19 Fareway 5
- 20 CVS Pharmacy 5
- 21 ALDI 4
- 22 T-Mobile 4
- 23 Scooter's Coffee 4
- 24 Arby's 4
- 25 Domino's Pizza 4
- 26 Taco John's 4
- 27 The Other Place 4
- 28 Wendy's 3
- 29 O'Reilly Auto Parts 3
- 30 Norbys Farm Fleet 3
- 31 Advance Auto Parts 3
- 32 AutoZone 3
- 33 Metro Mart 3
- 34 Greenleaf Tobacco & Vape 3
- 35 Applebee's Grill + Bar 3
- 36 Walmart 3
- 37 Kwik Stop 3
- 38 UScellular 3
- 39 Carlos O'Kelly's 3
- 40 Sub City 3
- 41 Hobby Lobby 3
- 42 Sherwin-Williams 2
- 43 Flowerama 2
- 44 Jersey Mike's Subs 2
- 45 Thompson Shoes 2
- 46 Cost Cutters 2
- 47 Brakes Plus 2
- 48 Verizon 2
- 49 Prime Mart 2
- 50 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 2
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