Trends · data through September 2026

Other trends in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 2,749 stores from 1,771 other chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. MBTA grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Boston University and The Village Bank.

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
1,771
Tracked stores
2,749
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked other 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. MBTA and Boston University sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 MBTA ▲1 +19.7%
2 Boston University ▲6 +10.7%
3 The Village Bank ▲3 +10.1%
4 Royal Cleaners - +8.8%
5 Webster First Federal Credit Union ▲7 +6.9%
6 South Shore Bank ▲5 +3.0%
7 CubeSmart Self Storage ▲2 +2.4%
8 Anton's Cleaners ▲8 +2.2%
9 FedEx Ship Center ▲4 +0.6%
10 F.W. Webb Company ▲7 -0.3%
11 Dependable Cleaners ▲7 -0.4%
12 Cleary Cleaners ▲1 -1.3%
13 Holly Cleaners ▼1 -4.1%
14 Harvard University ▲2 -4.2%
15 Santander Bank US - -5.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,749 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 495 of the 2,749 stores (18%); 1,618 of the 1,771 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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