Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 1,099 stores from 320 retail chains in Connecticut. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Agway and True Value.

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
320
Tracked stores
1,099
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Ace Hardware and Agway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲2 +16.4%
2 A Agway logo Agway ▲7 +16.2%
3 T True Value logo True Value ▲1 +12.1%
4 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic ▲5 +10.4%
5 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods ▲1 +9.5%
6 P Pet Supplies Plus logo Pet Supplies Plus ▲2 +9.0%
7 N Nordstrom logo Nordstrom ▲1 +8.5%
8 T Target logo Target - +8.2%
9 S Smoker's Discount World ▲3 +7.4%
10 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲1 +7.3%
11 B Burlington logo Burlington - +7.2%
12 L lululemon logo lululemon ▲4 +7.2%
13 M Michaels logo Michaels - +7.1%
14 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +6.7%
15 G Guitar Center logo Guitar Center ▲2 +5.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,099 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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