Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Maine

Iceflower tracks 12,345 stores from 8,968 retail and consumer chains in Maine. F.W. Webb Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Maine Smoke Shop and Hobby Lobby.

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
8,968
Tracked stores
12,345
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. F.W. Webb Company and Maine Smoke Shop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F.W. Webb Company ▲14 +19.8%
2 Maine Smoke Shop ▲6 +18.8%
3 Hobby Lobby ▲8 +18.4%
4 Gulf ▲10 +18.2%
5 Central Maine Power ▲5 +16.2%
6 Tire Warehouse ▲7 +15.8%
7 Maine Optometry ▲6 +15.4%
8 Goodwill ▲7 +15.3%
9 Paris Farmers Union ▲3 +15.0%
10 Renys - +14.5%
11 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲7 +14.1%
12 Aroma Joe's Coffee - +13.7%
13 Burger King ▲5 +13.6%
14 Subway ▲4 +13.0%
15 Taco Bell ▲4 +12.8%

Store footprint

Store map

12,345 tracked store locations in Maine, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 645 of the 12,345 stores (5%); 8,360 of the 8,968 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across the United States.

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