Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 2,096 stores from 1,069 retail and consumer chains in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of LongHorn Steakhouse and Valvoline Instant Oil Change.

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
1,069
Tracked stores
2,096
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. Chick-fil-A and LongHorn Steakhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲3 +18.2%
2 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲5 +16.9%
3 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲3 +16.9%
4 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲4 +14.6%
5 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲2 +13.9%
6 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲3 +13.7%
7 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods ▲4 +12.5%
8 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club ▲2 +9.2%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲3 +8.9%
10 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲3 +7.1%
11 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲1 +6.9%
12 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲3 +6.6%
13 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲1 +6.4%
14 T Target logo Target ▲1 +5.2%
15 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲1 +4.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,096 tracked store locations in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT, colored by category group.

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