Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 6,115 stores from 2,855 retail and consumer chains in Connecticut. Buffalo Wild Wings grew fastest over the last year, ahead of American Eagle and Applebee's Grill + Bar.

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
2,855
Tracked stores
6,115
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. Buffalo Wild Wings and American Eagle sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲5 +19.3%
2 A American Eagle logo American Eagle ▲5 +18.8%
3 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲8 +18.6%
4 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market ▲6 +17.7%
5 B Bestway ▲7 +15.8%
6 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲4 +14.6%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲4 +13.5%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲4 +13.3%
9 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲4 +12.6%
10 K Key Food logo Key Food ▲4 +12.0%
11 C Costco logo Costco - +11.2%
12 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲2 +11.1%
13 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲5 +10.4%
14 S SEPHORA logo SEPHORA ▲4 +10.2%
15 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲2 +9.8%

Store footprint

Store map

6,115 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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