Barnstable Town, MA Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Cumberland Farms and Aubuchon Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Cumberland Farms	-	+15.7%
2	Aubuchon Hardware	▲4	+15.4%
3	Dollar Tree	▲3	+13.9%
4	Exxon	▲3	+13.5%
5	HomeGoods	▲1	+11.7%
6	Speedway	-	+6.7%
7	Ace Hardware	▲2	+5.6%
8	Stop & Shop	-	+3.2%
9	Shaw's	-	+3.0%
10	Seamen's Bank	▲3	+0.9%
11	T.J.Maxx	-	+0.8%
12	CVS Pharmacy	-	+0.8%
13	Agway	-	+0.6%
14	Marshalls	-	+0.5%
15	Ocean State Job Lot	▼1	+0.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,153 tracked store locations in Barnstable Town, MA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 142 of the 2,153 stores (7%); 1,632 of the 1,753 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across Massachusetts.