Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Massachusetts

Iceflower tracks 5,277 stores from 2,704 retail chains in Massachusetts. Uniqlo grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tiffany & Co. and Altar'd State.

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
2,704
Tracked stores
5,277
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Uniqlo and Tiffany & Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Uniqlo ▲1 +18.7%
2 Tiffany & Co. ▲2 +17.7%
3 Altar'd State ▲12 +17.2%
4 J.Crew ▲1 +16.2%
5 Aubuchon Hardware ▲5 +16.2%
6 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲5 +16.2%
7 Newbury Comics ▲1 +16.1%
8 Homesense ▲6 +15.2%
9 Marathon Sports ▲8 +14.7%
10 Pure Hockey ▲6 +13.8%
11 Tractor Supply Co. ▲4 +12.9%
12 Dollar Tree - +12.1%
13 Value Village ▲3 +11.6%
14 Hollister Co. ▲9 +11.0%
15 Sierra ▲7 +10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

5,277 tracked store locations in Massachusetts, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 441 of the 5,277 stores (8%); 2,368 of the 2,704 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 6% across the United States.

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