The Most Common Stores in America's Malls

Bath & Body Works is the most widespread store in America's malls: it appears in 68% of the 347 malls with well-mapped store directories in our data, followed by claire's (65%) and Victoria's Secret (59%). Among food brands, Auntie Anne's is the most common (48%); among department stores, Macy's (41%).

Shares are the percentage of well-mapped malls with at least one mapped location for the brand — a measure of how often you'll find it, not of its total store count. Data compiled from OpenStreetMap on July 11, 2026; see the method and limits below.

Well-mapped malls: 347
Distinct brands: 8,251
Median mapped places: 60
With a department store: 79%

The 50 most common mall stores

Apparel, beauty and accessories dominate the list; the typical well-mapped mall has about 60 mapped places, of which roughly 19% are food. Linked names have a page listing every mall where the brand is mapped.

The 50 most common stores in well-mapped U.S. malls
#	Store	Type	Malls	Share
1	Bath & Body Works	Beauty	237	68%
2	claire's	Accessories	225	65%
3	Victoria's Secret	Clothing	204	59%
4	American Eagle Outfitters	Clothing	195	56%
5	Journeys	Shoes	192	55%
6	Lids	Clothing	186	54%
7	Kay Jewelers	Jewelry	184	53%
8	Sunglass Hut	Eyewear	182	52%
9	Hot Topic	Clothing	169	49%
10	Auntie Anne's	Fast food	165	48%
11	Zumiez	Clothing	165	48%
12	Spencer's	Gifts	163	47%
13	H&M	Clothing	161	46%
14	T-Mobile	Phones	152	44%
15	Macy's	Department store	144	41%
16	Starbucks	Café	144	41%
17	LensCrafters	Eyewear	142	41%
18	Aeropostale	Clothing	134	39%
19	JCPenney	Department store	133	38%
20	GNC	Nutrition	131	38%
21	Foot Locker	Shoes	130	37%
22	Express	Clothing	129	37%
23	Zales	Jewelry	127	37%
24	Hollister	Clothing	126	36%
25	Sephora	Beauty	126	36%
26	PacSun	Clothing	125	36%
27	Vans	Shoes	125	36%
28	Pandora	Jewelry	124	36%
29	The Children's Place	Clothing	124	36%
30	GameStop	Video games	119	34%
31	Torrid	Clothing	118	34%
32	Buckle	Clothing	107	31%
33	Champs Sports	Sporting goods	105	30%
34	Finish Line	Sporting goods	102	29%
35	Cinnabon	Fast food	100	29%
36	Old Navy	Clothing	96	28%
37	Charleys Philly Steaks	Fast food	92	27%
38	Build-A-Bear Workshop	Toys	91	26%
39	Coach	Handbags	89	26%
40	Francesca's	Clothing	89	26%
41	AT&T	Phones	86	25%
42	Loft	Clothing	86	25%
43	Windsor	Clothing	86	25%
44	Banana Republic	Clothing	85	24%
45	Aerie	Clothing	83	24%
46	Dick's Sporting Goods	Sporting goods	82	24%
47	Aldo	Shoes	81	23%
48	Michael Kors	Clothing	79	23%
49	Verizon	Phones	79	23%
50	Apple Store	Electronics	78	22%

The most common restaurants and food

Mall food is led by snack and food-court brands: Auntie Anne's (48%), Starbucks (41%), Cinnabon (29%).

The most common food brands in well-mapped U.S. malls
#	Store	Type	Malls	Share
1	Auntie Anne's	Fast food	165	48%
2	Starbucks	Café	144	41%
3	Cinnabon	Fast food	100	29%
4	Charleys Philly Steaks	Fast food	92	27%
5	Sbarro	Fast food	78	22%
6	Panda Express	Fast food	69	20%
7	Chick-fil-A	Fast food	68	20%
8	Subway	Fast food	67	19%
9	Chipotle	Fast food	63	18%
10	The Cheesecake Factory	Restaurant	59	17%

Department and off-price stores

79% of well-mapped malls have at least one store mapped as a department store. OpenStreetMap uses that category for traditional anchors and for some off-price chains, so both appear here.

The most common department and off-price stores in well-mapped U.S. malls
#	Store	Type	Malls	Share
1	Macy's	Department store	144	41%
2	JCPenney	Department store	133	38%
3	Dillard's	Department store	62	18%
4	Nordstrom	Department store	40	12%
5	Target	Department store	32	9%
6	Burlington	Department store	27	8%
7	Ross	Department store	25	7%
8	Marshalls	Department store	24	7%
9	TJ Maxx	Department store	21	6%
10	Kohl's	Department store	19	5%
11	Belk	Department store	18	5%
12	Bloomingdale's	Department store	15	4%

Closed chains still on the map

Map data lags store closures, sometimes by years. These chains have closed all or nearly all of their U.S. stores but are still recorded inside the malls below, so we leave them out of store directories, brand pages and every count on this site.

Closed chains still recorded inside mall footprints
Chain	What happened	Malls still showing it	Source
Forever 21	Closed all of its roughly 350 U.S. stores in spring 2025 after a second bankruptcy; a new operator has since begun reopening a small number.	117	Axios, March 17, 2025 Retail Dive on the reopening plan
Justice	All stores wound down by early 2021 after the brand was sold in bankruptcy; it is now sold through Walmart.	46	Retail Dive, November 11, 2020
Sears	Down to five full-line U.S. stores by late 2025, from about 3,500 at its peak.	41	USA TODAY Network, November 30, 2025
Gymboree	Closed all of its stores in 2019 after a second bankruptcy filing.	30	CNN, January 17, 2019
Christopher & Banks	Closed its 449 stores in 2021 after filing for Chapter 11.	28	WWD, January 2021
The Body Shop	Shut down its U.S. operations and stores in March 2024; it returned in 2025 as an online-only retailer.	16	CNN, March 10, 2024 Chain Store Age, October 9, 2025
Party City	Closed all of its 700-plus stores by early 2025.	10	Axios, December 20, 2024
Rite Aid	Closed its remaining stores in October 2025 after a second bankruptcy.	5	NBC News, October 2025

Where a store reportedly still operates (for example Sears at two of its last locations), we keep that mall's entry.

Method and limits

We counted named stores, restaurants and venues mapped inside the exact OpenStreetMap footprint of each mall with a full listing in this directory. To make shares meaningful, only malls with at least 30 mapped places count as well-mapped; a brand's share is the number of those malls with at least one mapped location for it. Spelling variants of the same brand are grouped, and each brand's type is the category most often used for it on the map.

OpenStreetMap is edited by volunteers, so coverage is uneven: some malls are mapped store by store while others record only their anchors, and very recent openings or closures may be missing. Treat the shares as the pattern across well-documented malls, not a census of every U.S. mall, and check a mall's official directory before a trip. For the malls with the most mapped places, see malls with the most mapped stores.

Sources

Store records © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), compiled July 11, 2026. Closure sources are linked in the table above.