Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 245 stores from 30 discount store chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Ocean State Job Lot.

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
30
Tracked stores
245
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount store 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 Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +7.4%
2 Dollar Tree - +5.5%
3 Ocean State Job Lot - -4.2%
4 Family Dollar - -7.3%
5 Big Lots - -99.6%
  • Dollar Tree
  • Ocean State Job Lot
  • Five Below
  • Family Dollar
  • Dollar General
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet
  • Jamie's Variety
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

245 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 211 of the 245 stores (86%); 24 of the 30 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 9% across Massachusetts.

  • Dollar Tree (101)
  • Ocean State Job Lot (30)
  • Five Below (21)
  • Family Dollar (40)
  • Dollar General (19)
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet (1)
  • Jamie's Variety (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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