Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

Iceflower tracks 796 stores from 655 retail and consumer chains in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA. Advance Auto Parts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Tandem Bagel Company.

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
655
Tracked stores
796
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. Advance Auto Parts and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Advance Auto Parts - +17.7%
2 Dollar Tree - +13.3%
3 Tandem Bagel Company ▲2 +11.1%
4 Shell ▲1 +10.9%
5 Dollar General ▲2 +10.8%
6 La Veracruzana ▲4 +10.5%
7 Walmart - +9.9%
8 Cumberland Farms - +8.9%
9 Dunkin' ▲1 +5.5%
10 Stop & Shop - +1.6%
11 CVS Pharmacy - +1.2%
12 Starbucks - +1.0%
13 Big Y World Class Market - +0.7%
14 Pride Stores - -1.1%
15 Golden Nozzle Car Wash ▼1 -2.8%

Store footprint

Store map

796 tracked store locations in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 57 of the 796 stores (7%); 601 of the 655 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 12% across Massachusetts.

Top tracked chains by store count

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