Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Waterbury-Shelton, CT

Iceflower tracks 316 stores from 235 retail chains in Waterbury-Shelton, CT. The Paper Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harbor Freight Tools and Ocean State Job Lot.

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
235
Tracked stores
316
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. The Paper Store and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Paper Store logo The Paper Store ▲1 +15.4%
2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +14.0%
3 O Ocean State Job Lot - +8.7%
4 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams - +8.2%
5 F Five Below logo Five Below - +8.0%
6 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +7.5%
7 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +5.3%
8 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar - +5.3%
9 S Staples logo Staples ▲1 +3.9%
10 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +3.1%
11 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +2.4%
12 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▼1 -0.7%
13 W Walmart logo Walmart - -7.0%
14 M Michaels logo Michaels ▼1 -31.1%

Store footprint

Store map

316 tracked store locations in Waterbury-Shelton, CT, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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