Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 25,894 stores from 16,876 retail and consumer chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. J.Crew grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tiffany & Co. and Pure Hockey.

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
16,876
Tracked stores
25,894
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. J.Crew and Tiffany & Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J J.Crew logo J.Crew ▲15 +19.3%
2 T Tiffany & Co. logo Tiffany & Co. ▲16 +18.7%
3 P Pure Hockey logo Pure Hockey ▲18 +15.8%
4 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲14 +15.5%
5 A Aubuchon Hardware logo Aubuchon Hardware ▲12 +14.9%
6 S Sunoco logo Sunoco ▲3 +14.8%
7 G Gulf logo Gulf ▲4 +14.4%
8 N Nouria logo Nouria ▲3 +14.2%
9 A AL Prime logo AL Prime ▲8 +14.1%
10 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot ▲7 +13.0%
11 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲11 +12.6%
12 C Costco logo Costco ▲1 +12.6%
13 N NH Liquor & Wine Outlet ▲3 +12.4%
14 B Big Y World Class Market logo Big Y World Class Market ▲7 +12.2%
15 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲11 +12.0%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 25,894 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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