Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 26,683 stores from 18,817 retail and consumer chains in Connecticut. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Russell Speeder's Car Wash and Ring's End.

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
18,817
Tracked stores
26,683
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. Five Below and Russell Speeder's Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲6 +18.9%
2 R Russell Speeder's Car Wash logo Russell Speeder's Car Wash ▲7 +16.8%
3 R Ring's End logo Ring's End ▲7 +13.7%
4 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲1 +13.7%
5 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲8 +13.1%
6 H Hess ▲10 +12.9%
7 K Key Food logo Key Food ▲10 +12.4%
8 S Shell logo Shell ▲3 +11.2%
9 A ABC Supply Co. Inc. logo ABC Supply Co. Inc. ▲6 +8.8%
10 G Gulf logo Gulf ▲2 +8.8%
11 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲6 +8.7%
12 F Fuel Plus ▲6 +8.6%
13 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market ▲1 +8.0%
14 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲1 +7.5%
15 C Caraluzzi's logo Caraluzzi's ▲7 +6.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 26,683 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category group.

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