Trends · data through July 2026

Specialty Stores in New York

Iceflower tracks 173 stores from 128 specialty stores chains in New York. Guitar Center grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hewitt's Garden Centers and Agway.

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
128
Tracked stores
173
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty stores 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. Guitar Center and Hewitt's Garden Centers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Guitar Center logo Guitar Center ▲1 +17.3%
2 H Hewitt's Garden Centers ▲1 +11.6%
3 A Agway logo Agway - +10.9%
4 W West Marine logo West Marine - -6.9%
5 V Vera Bradley logo Vera Bradley - -12.7%
6 P Party City logo Party City ▼2 -78.6%
  • Guitar Center
  • Hewitt's Garden Centers
  • Verilife Dispensary
  • Alpin Haus
  • Gade Farm
  • Faddegon's Nursery
  • Colorize INC
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

173 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Guitar Center (7)
  • Hewitt's Garden Centers (5)
  • Verilife Dispensary (2)
  • Alpin Haus (2)
  • Gade Farm (1)
  • Faddegon's Nursery (1)
  • Colorize INC (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Party City logo Party City 17
  • 2 G Guitar Center logo Guitar Center 7
  • 3 H Hewitt's Garden Centers 5
  • 4 W Williams-Sonoma logo Williams-Sonoma 5
  • 5 W West Marine logo West Marine 4
  • 6 V Vera Bradley logo Vera Bradley 3
  • 7 A Agway logo Agway 3
  • 8 A Ashley Furniture HomeStore logo Ashley Furniture HomeStore 2
  • 9 A Alpin Haus logo Alpin Haus 2
  • 10 H Haun Welding Supply 2
  • 11 C Crisp 2
  • 12 N Nunn's Home Medical Equipment 2
  • 13 L Leslie's Pool Supplies logo Leslie's Pool Supplies 2
  • 14 T The Trading Post 2
  • 15 V Verilife Dispensary 2
  • 16 B Brookside Nursery-Ballston Spa 1
  • 17 G Grandpa's Nursery and Gardens 1
  • 18 C Crazy Daisies Flowers & Garden Cafe 1
  • 19 D DeLuke's Garden Center 1
  • 20 S Soho Garden 1
  • 21 S Samsonite logo Samsonite 1
  • 22 G Goodman's Farm Market 1
  • 23 H HTG Supply 1
  • 24 G Great Pumpkin Farm 1
  • 25 T Tioga Gardens 1
  • 26 B Ballantyne Gardens 1
  • 27 N Native Sun Flowers 1
  • 28 R Rhodes Greenhouses 1
  • 29 H Health System Services 1
  • 30 A ACA Lawnscape Supply 1
  • 31 B Bristol's Garden Center 1
  • 32 N Nanticoke Gardens 1
  • 33 M Mountain Music 1
  • 34 C Cross Creek Nursery 1
  • 35 P Pro2 C-PAP Center 1
  • 36 G Green Acre Farm and Nursery 1
  • 37 M Mac's Farm & Garden World 1
  • 38 O Owego Agway 1
  • 39 S Sara's Garden Center 1
  • 40 S Story's Nursery 1
  • 41 N Northtown Garden Center 1
  • 42 L Love of Fuzz 1
  • 43 P Patroon Nursery 1
  • 44 H H.A. Treichler & Sons 1
  • 45 S Shaker Hardware 1
  • 46 E Exotic Vapes 1
  • 47 M Mind Games Destiny USA 1
  • 48 G Global Newsstand 1
  • 49 E Everyday Bags 1
  • 50 S Sky Smoke Shop 1

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