Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Maine

Iceflower tracks 5,186 stores from 3,077 retail and consumer chains in Maine. Barnes & Noble grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ocean State Job Lot and IHOP.

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
3,077
Tracked stores
5,186
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. Barnes & Noble and Ocean State Job Lot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲13 +18.1%
2 O Ocean State Job Lot ▲7 +17.0%
3 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲6 +16.8%
4 M Market Basket logo Market Basket ▲1 +16.3%
5 L L.L.Bean logo L.L.Bean ▲9 +16.1%
6 G Golden Nozzle Car Wash logo Golden Nozzle Car Wash ▲6 +15.5%
7 R Renys logo Renys ▲2 +15.2%
8 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲6 +14.7%
9 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲4 +13.9%
10 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲4 +10.5%
11 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲8 +10.3%
12 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲4 +10.3%
13 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲4 +10.3%
14 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲5 +10.2%
15 M Maine Smoke Shop ▲8 +10.1%

Store footprint

Store map

5,186 tracked store locations in Maine, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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