Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

Iceflower tracks 10,516 stores from 8,004 retail and consumer chains in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Five Below.

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
8,004
Tracked stores
10,516
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. Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲6 +19.7%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲3 +19.5%
3 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲10 +19.0%
4 W Walgreens logo Walgreens ▲1 +16.2%
5 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons ▲3 +15.8%
6 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲3 +12.8%
7 D Delta Sonic Car Wash logo Delta Sonic Car Wash - +11.6%
8 I Irr Supply ▲5 +10.0%
9 G GO Car Wash logo GO Car Wash ▲8 +9.9%
10 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲7 +9.8%
11 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲5 +8.5%
12 M Mavis Discount Tire logo Mavis Discount Tire ▲4 +8.3%
13 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲4 +7.5%
14 K Kwik Fill logo Kwik Fill ▲2 +6.8%
15 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer - +5.7%

Store footprint

Store map

10,516 tracked store locations in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY, colored by category group.

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