Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 2,679 stores from 1,036 gas & auto chains in Connecticut. Xpress Fuel grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Phillips 66 Gas and City Gas.

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
1,036
Tracked stores
2,679
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Xpress Fuel and Phillips 66 Gas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Xpress Fuel ▲5 +14.9%
2 Phillips 66 Gas ▲7 +14.5%
3 City Gas ▲5 +9.0%
4 Exxon - +8.2%
5 Hess - +8.1%
6 Shell - +8.0%
7 Gulf - +7.8%
8 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲1 +7.3%
9 Fuel Plus - +6.9%
10 LAZ Parking ▲2 +6.0%
11 Valero ▲3 +5.1%
12 U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲1 +3.8%
13 Cumberland Farms - +3.7%
14 Global ▲1 +3.2%
15 Purple Elephant Car Wash ▲2 +1.2%

Store footprint

Store map

2,679 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 772 of the 2,679 stores (29%); 932 of the 1,036 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are vehicle services, against 6% across the United States.

Top tracked chains by store count

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