Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Bangor, ME

Iceflower tracks 1,052 stores from 795 retail and consumer chains in Bangor, ME. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Irving Oil and Big Apple Store.

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
795
Tracked stores
1,052
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. Subway and Irving Oil sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Subway ▲5 +19.8%
2 Irving Oil ▲1 +16.8%
3 Big Apple Store ▲1 +10.8%
4 Maine Smoke Shop ▲3 +10.7%
5 Circle K - +9.0%
6 Dollar Tree ▲2 +8.4%
7 Tim Hortons ▲2 +8.1%
8 Shell - +7.9%
9 Dairy Queen - +4.5%
10 Dollar General - +3.6%
11 Gulf - +3.3%
12 Walgreens - +3.0%
13 Burger King ▲1 +2.7%
14 United States Postal Service ▲1 +2.6%
15 Dunkin' - +2.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,052 tracked store locations in Bangor, ME, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 86 of the 1,052 stores (8%); 722 of the 795 tracked chains have a single store here. 16% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 12% across Maine.

Top tracked chains by store count

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