Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Massachusetts

Iceflower tracks 9,589 stores from 4,309 retail and consumer chains in Massachusetts. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Stop N Save and Chick-fil-A.

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
4,309
Tracked stores
9,589
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. Five Below and Stop N Save sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲7 +18.1%
2 S Stop N Save ▲14 +17.2%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲4 +16.0%
4 V Value Village logo Value Village ▲9 +15.9%
5 C Costco logo Costco ▲3 +15.9%
6 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲12 +15.0%
7 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +13.3%
8 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲4 +12.5%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲7 +12.3%
10 D DoubleTree by Hilton logo DoubleTree by Hilton ▲6 +12.1%
11 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲6 +12.1%
12 K Kappy's Fine Wine & Spirits logo Kappy's Fine Wine & Spirits ▲4 +11.6%
13 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲7 +11.4%
14 L Liquors 44 - +10.5%
15 R Residence Inn logo Residence Inn ▲6 +9.8%

Store footprint

Store map

9,589 tracked store locations in Massachusetts, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.