Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Bangor, ME

Iceflower tracks 193 stores from 146 retail chains in Bangor, ME. Maine Smoke Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Dollar General.

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
146
Tracked stores
193
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. Maine Smoke Shop and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Maine Smoke Shop ▲1 +12.4%
2 Dollar Tree - +10.0%
3 Dollar General - +5.2%
4 Walmart - -0.6%
5 Tractor Supply Co. - -7.7%
6 Cigaret Shopper ▲1 -12.6%
7 Family Dollar ▲1 -15.4%
8 Ware-Butler Building Supply ▼3 -100.0%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

193 tracked store locations in Bangor, ME, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 35 of the 193 stores (18%); 129 of the 146 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 3% across Maine.

  • Discount Store (26)
  • Hardware Store (20)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (13)
  • Sporting Goods Store (10)
  • Flower Shop (10)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (9)
  • Specialty Store (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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