Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Waterbury-Shelton, CT

Iceflower tracks 2,547 stores from 2,035 retail and consumer chains in Waterbury-Shelton, CT. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Paper Store and Harbor Freight Tools.

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
2,035
Tracked stores
2,547
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. Ace Hardware and The Paper Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲10 +19.3%
2 T The Paper Store logo The Paper Store ▲5 +14.3%
3 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲6 +13.0%
4 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +12.7%
5 G Gulf logo Gulf ▲1 +11.0%
6 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +10.1%
7 O Ocean State Job Lot - +7.7%
8 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲4 +7.0%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +6.6%
10 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +6.5%
11 R Russell Speeder's Car Wash logo Russell Speeder's Car Wash ▲5 +6.0%
12 S ShopRite logo ShopRite - +4.9%
13 C Cumberland Farms logo Cumberland Farms - +4.8%
14 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +4.4%
15 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲2 +4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

2,547 tracked store locations in Waterbury-Shelton, CT, colored by category group.

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