Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 78 stores from 14 teen & young adult apparel chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Abercrombie & Fitch grew fastest over the last year, ahead of American Eagle and Tillys.

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
14
Tracked stores
78
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel 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. Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Abercrombie & Fitch logo Abercrombie & Fitch - +4.7%
2 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - +4.4%
3 T Tillys logo Tillys ▲2 +1.4%
4 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - +1.3%
5 P PacSun logo PacSun - +1.0%
6 G Garage logo Garage - +0.8%
7 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - -6.6%
8 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▲1 -7.9%
9 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic - -8.2%
10 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez - -18.6%
11 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▼3 -51.0%
  • American Eagle
  • Brandy Melville
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Garage
  • Hollister Co.
  • PacSun
  • Aéropostale
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

78 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • American Eagle (11)
  • Brandy Melville (1)
  • Abercrombie & Fitch (4)
  • Garage (7)
  • Hollister Co. (4)
  • PacSun (7)
  • Aéropostale (9)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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