Trends · data through August 2026

Discount Stores in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 123 stores from 8 discount stores chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Five Below and Dollar Tree.

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
8
Tracked stores
123
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount stores 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. Dollar General and Five Below sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +9.5%
2 F Five Below logo Five Below - +9.3%
3 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +3.2%
4 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar - -2.0%
5 O Ocean State Job Lot - -6.0%
  • Ocean State Job Lot
  • Dollar Tree
  • Five Below
  • Dollar General
  • Family Dollar
  • 99 Cents Only Stores
  • Jamie's Variety
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

123 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Ocean State Job Lot (27)
  • Dollar Tree (63)
  • Five Below (19)
  • Dollar General (6)
  • Family Dollar (5)
  • 99 Cents Only Stores (1)
  • Jamie's Variety (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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