Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

Iceflower tracks 6,856 stores from 4,398 retail and consumer chains in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hobby Lobby and U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer.

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
4,398
Tracked stores
6,856
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chick-fil-A ▲4 +20.0%
2 Hobby Lobby ▲11 +19.7%
3 U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲3 +17.2%
4 The BFLO Store ▲7 +14.4%
5 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲2 +12.6%
6 Tractor Supply Co. ▲7 +12.2%
7 HomeGoods ▲6 +12.1%
8 Michaels ▲6 +11.5%
9 Dunkin' ▲5 +11.1%
10 Delta Sonic Car Wash - +10.9%
11 Tim Hortons ▲3 +10.6%
12 Starbucks ▲5 +9.8%
13 Kwik Fill ▲1 +8.8%
14 Goodwill ▲5 +8.7%
15 Harbor Freight Tools ▲3 +8.4%

Store footprint

Store map

6,856 tracked store locations in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 471 of the 6,856 stores (7%); 3,908 of the 4,398 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 9% across New York.

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