Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 734 stores from 444 retail chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harbor Freight Tools and Staples.

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
444
Tracked stores
734
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Five Below and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲2 +15.6%
2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲1 +10.0%
3 S Staples logo Staples ▼1 +9.1%
4 T Target logo Target - +8.2%
5 M Marshalls logo Marshalls - +8.1%
6 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲2 +7.5%
7 L LOFT logo LOFT ▲3 +7.3%
8 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲3 +6.0%
9 C Curtis Lumber Co Inc logo Curtis Lumber Co Inc - +4.3%
10 W Walmart logo Walmart - +4.2%
11 V Verizon logo Verizon ▲2 +3.7%
12 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar ▼1 +3.6%
13 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲2 +3.4%
14 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲1 +2.9%
15 C Cellular Sales logo Cellular Sales ▲3 +1.9%

Store footprint

Store map

734 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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