Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 1,259 stores from 909 retail chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Hatchet Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Curtis Lumber Co Inc and True Value.

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
909
Tracked stores
1,259
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. Hatchet Hardware and Curtis Lumber Co Inc sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Hatchet Hardware ▲4 +19.1%
2 Curtis Lumber Co Inc ▲1 +18.1%
3 True Value ▲1 +13.6%
4 Goodwill ▲1 +13.3%
5 Lane Bryant - +11.8%
6 Harbor Freight Tools ▲3 +9.9%
7 Mattress Firm - +9.8%
8 Maurices ▲4 +6.4%
9 Home Outlet - +6.3%
10 Pet Supplies Plus ▲1 +5.7%
11 T.J.Maxx - +5.5%
12 Target - +4.8%
13 Marshalls - +4.5%
14 Dollar Tree ▲1 +3.3%
15 TALBOTS ▲3 +2.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,259 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 105 of the 1,259 stores (8%); 790 of the 909 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, against 4% across New York.

Top tracked chains by store count

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