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A Warby Parker retail location in Westfield, New Jersey. (Shutterstock)

According to Placer Labs, these 10 retail chains had the foot traffic in 2021 to set up them up for future growth in brick and mortar retail.

  • Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
  • Dutch Bros. Coffee
  • Gopuff
  • Blink Fitness
  • Warby Parker
  • Allbirds
  • Arhaus
  • pOpshelf
  • Burlington
  • Sephora inside Kohl’s

As noted by Fast Company, some of these retailers are coming off 2021 initial public offerings which could position them for further growth in 2022.

According to Placer Labs data, Dutch Bros. is now the third-largest coffee chain in the United States (behind Starbucks and Dunkin’). Per-store sales numbers top those of both the bigger chains, and traffic increased 50 percent despite the pandemic