Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Iceflower tracks 9,789 stores from 7,315 retail and consumer chains in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Exxon and Gulf.

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
7,315
Tracked stores
9,789
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 Exxon sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲5 +17.2%
2 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲2 +10.8%
3 G Gulf logo Gulf ▲4 +10.5%
4 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲4 +9.3%
5 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage ▲6 +8.5%
6 C Cumberland Farms logo Cumberland Farms - +7.6%
7 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲2 +7.6%
8 P Pride Stores logo Pride Stores ▲1 +7.5%
9 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲6 +6.0%
10 S Subway logo Subway ▲6 +5.8%
11 W Wood-n-Tap logo Wood-n-Tap ▲1 +5.2%
12 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +4.8%
13 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲5 +4.2%
14 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +4.0%
15 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲4 +4.0%

Store footprint

Store map

9,789 tracked store locations in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT, colored by category group.

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