Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 9,937 stores from 7,351 retail and consumer chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Joe's Kwik Marts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Prime Storage and AAA.

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
7,351
Tracked stores
9,937
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. Joe's Kwik Marts and Prime Storage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Joe's Kwik Marts ▲2 +18.3%
2 Prime Storage - +17.7%
3 AAA ▲7 +17.7%
4 Hatchet Hardware ▲9 +15.1%
5 Curtis Lumber Co Inc ▲3 +14.2%
6 Sunoco - +12.4%
7 Afrim's Sports Park ▲3 +12.3%
8 Cumberland Farms ▲3 +10.8%
9 Warren Tire Service Center ▲8 +10.6%
10 Valero ▲8 +10.2%
11 Uncommon Grounds Coffee & Bagels ▲4 +10.1%
12 Exxon - +10.0%
13 Gulf ▲3 +9.9%
14 Citgo ▲3 +9.5%
15 Price Chopper ▲2 +9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

9,937 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 504 of the 9,937 stores (5%); 6,720 of the 7,351 tracked chains have a single store here. 25% of the tracked stores here are in food & drink, against 40% across New York.

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