Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Barnstable Town, MA

Iceflower tracks 439 stores from 374 retail chains in Barnstable Town, MA. Aubuchon Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and HomeGoods.

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
374
Tracked stores
439
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. Aubuchon Hardware and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Aubuchon Hardware ▲1 +15.7%
2 Dollar Tree - +14.3%
3 HomeGoods - +12.0%
4 TALBOTS ▲2 +11.0%
5 Ace Hardware - +5.9%
6 T.J.Maxx - +1.1%
7 Marshalls - +0.8%
8 Agway - +0.8%
9 Ocean State Job Lot - +0.6%
10 Puritan Cape Cod - -2.1%
11 Sherwin-Williams - -3.3%
12 Staples ▼1 -3.4%
13 West Marine - -4.5%
14 The Vape Way - -6.2%
15 Soft as a Grape ▼2 -21.7%
  • Other clothing stores
  • Flower Shop
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Gift Shop
  • Specialty Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

439 tracked store locations in Barnstable Town, MA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 439 stores (7%); 343 of the 374 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 9% across Massachusetts.

  • Other clothing stores (49)
  • Flower Shop (42)
  • Women's Contemporary (29)
  • Sporting Goods Store (28)
  • Hardware Store (23)
  • Gift Shop (21)
  • Specialty Store (19)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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