Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 9,044 stores from 6,859 retail and consumer chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Joe's Kwik Marts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of O'Reilly Auto Parts and Gulf.

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
6,859
Tracked stores
9,044
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Joe's Kwik Marts and O'Reilly Auto Parts sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Joe's Kwik Marts logo Joe's Kwik Marts ▲6 +18.5%
2 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲5 +12.9%
3 G Gulf logo Gulf ▲3 +12.7%
4 S Sunoco logo Sunoco - +11.8%
5 C Cumberland Farms logo Cumberland Farms ▲3 +11.1%
6 A AAA logo AAA ▲6 +10.1%
7 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲7 +9.5%
8 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +9.4%
9 E Exxon logo Exxon - +9.0%
10 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲5 +8.8%
11 C Curtis Lumber Co Inc logo Curtis Lumber Co Inc - +8.4%
12 H H&R Block logo H&R Block ▲2 +8.1%
13 P Price Chopper logo Price Chopper ▲2 +8.0%
14 C Citgo logo Citgo ▲2 +6.9%
15 S Stewart's Shops logo Stewart's Shops ▲1 +6.9%

Store footprint

Store map

9,044 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category group.

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