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Torrid vs. Lane Bryant vs. Everyone: the Plus Size Chain League Table, 2026

Every plus size chain says shoppers love them. The shoppers keep their own score. We averaged the Google rating of every US location of every major plus size chain — 3,217 stores, 354,159 reviews — to see which chain actually rates highest where it counts: at the store, with the person holding the fitting-room key.

The league table

DXL Big + Tall takes the crown at 4.52★ averaged across its 283 directory locations. In the matchup everyone asks about, Torrid (4.39★ over 408 stores) edges Lane Bryant (4.34★ over 367) — a near dead heat across nearly 109k combined reviews. Chains need 10+ US locations to qualify.

#	Chain	Avg rating	US locations	Shopper reviews
1	DXL Big + Tall	4.52★	283	66,409
2	Maurices	4.43★	726	45,344
3	Torrid	4.39★	408	59,239
4	Cato Fashions	4.39★	723	51,780
5	Lane Bryant	4.34★	367	49,749
6	Ashley Stewart	4.25★	66	11,597
7	Rainbow Shops	3.89★	644	70,041

Honest framing: these are location-level averages — a measure of how shoppers rate the stores they walk into, not a corporate scorecard. A chain's best and worst locations can sit a full star apart, which is exactly why our chain pages rank every individual location of each brand by rating.

How to use this before you drive anywhere

The gap between chains is smaller than the gap between locations. Pick your chain here, then check its page — Torrid, Lane Bryant, DXL Big + Tall — to find the specific store near you that shoppers actually rate highest. Or skip the chains entirely and browse the independent boutiques, where curation is the whole business model.

Cite this data

Free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Suggested line: "Source: PlusSizeNearby.com plus size chain ratings (2026)" linked to this page.

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Methodology: chain assignment from store names and brand sites across our national directory of 6,551 plus size stores; rating = unweighted mean of each location's public Google rating (rated locations only); review totals summed across all of a chain's directory locations; chains need 10+ locations to appear. Location counts reflect our directory, which tracks but may slightly trail store openings and closures. Updated July 15, 2026. More cuts of the data: the plus size stats hub.