Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 7,107 stores from 3,411 retail and consumer chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Value Village and Costco.

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
3,411
Tracked stores
7,107
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. Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers and Value Village sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲8 +17.8%
2 V Value Village logo Value Village ▲5 +17.5%
3 C Costco logo Costco ▲3 +17.3%
4 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲5 +15.1%
5 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲8 +13.4%
6 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲8 +13.0%
7 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲5 +12.5%
8 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot ▲5 +9.9%
9 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲8 +9.5%
10 N Newbury Comics logo Newbury Comics ▲4 +9.3%
11 R Residence Inn logo Residence Inn ▲5 +8.4%
12 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲2 +8.3%
13 L Life Alive Organic Cafe logo Life Alive Organic Cafe ▲3 +7.4%
14 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲5 +7.4%
15 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲5 +7.3%

Store footprint

Store map

7,107 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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