Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 160 stores from 81 pet store chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Wild Birds Unlimited grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Petco and Pet Supplies Plus.

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
81
Tracked stores
160
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pet 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. Wild Birds Unlimited and Petco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Wild Birds Unlimited - +10.1%
2 Petco - +3.6%
3 Pet Supplies Plus - +2.0%
4 PetSmart - -0.8%
5 Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming - -1.1%
  • PetSmart
  • Petco
  • Pet Supplies Plus
  • WoofMeow Family Pet Center
  • Wild Birds Unlimited
  • Essex County Co-Op
  • State Line Pet Supply
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

160 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 75 of the 160 stores (47%); 67 of the 81 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are pet stores, the same share as across Massachusetts.

  • PetSmart (22)
  • Petco (32)
  • Pet Supplies Plus (10)
  • WoofMeow Family Pet Center (2)
  • Wild Birds Unlimited (7)
  • Essex County Co-Op (1)
  • State Line Pet Supply (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Petco 32
  • 2 PetSmart 22
  • 3 Pet Supplies Plus 10
  • 4 Wild Birds Unlimited 7
  • 5 Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming 4
  • 6 The Natural Dog 2
  • 7 Boston Barkery 2
  • 8 Ciao Bow Wow 2
  • 9 Friendly Pets 2
  • 10 Pets Plus 2
  • 11 Polkadog 2
  • 12 Paws Pet Boutique 2
  • 13 EarthWise Pet 2
  • 14 WoofMeow Family Pet Center 2
  • 15 Pet Junction 1
  • 16 The Lucky Pup 1
  • 17 Gimme Chews and Moore 1
  • 18 Pets, Pets, Pets 1
  • 19 Essex Bird & Pet Supply 1
  • 20 Pet Wants Portsmouth 1
  • 21 Pets Gone Healthy 1
  • 22 Weruva 1
  • 23 Pet Supply Outlet 1
  • 24 Mac and Copper's Pet Supply Outlet 1
  • 25 Everything But The Dog 1
  • 26 Maggie's Dog House 1
  • 27 Healthy Pet 1
  • 28 No Bones About It 1
  • 29 Quinn's Canine Cafe 1
  • 30 Jabberwock Reptiles 1
  • 31 Downtown Dogs 1
  • 32 The Fish & Bone 1
  • 33 Denise's Pet Center 1
  • 34 Hometown Pets 1
  • 35 Chickadee Seed & Feed 1
  • 36 Lovely Pets Aquarium 1
  • 37 Canine Cupboard 1
  • 38 Ferestien Feed and Farm Supply 1
  • 39 The Pet Shop 1
  • 40 Pilgrim Pups 1
  • 41 Pete's Grain Company 1
  • 42 Creature Comforts and Pawsitively Marblehead 1
  • 43 Scritches & Boops 1
  • 44 European Aquatics 1
  • 45 Kupcakes & Kibble 1
  • 46 CV Exotics 1
  • 47 Cody's Creations 1
  • 48 Zoo Creatures Pet Store 1
  • 49 Pet Supplies Plus Ashland 1
  • 50 Jay's Aquatics 1

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