Trends · data through September 2026

Pet Stores in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 382 stores from 208 pet store chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Pet Central grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Pet Supplies Plus and Wild Birds Unlimited.

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
208
Tracked stores
382
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pet store 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. Pet Central and Pet Supplies Plus sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Pet Central - +13.3%
2 Pet Supplies Plus - +3.9%
3 Wild Birds Unlimited - +3.5%
4 Whole Pets Market - -0.5%
5 PetSmart - -0.9%
6 Petco - -2.0%
7 Choice Pet - -13.7%
  • PetSmart
  • Petco
  • Pet Supplies Plus
  • Pet Goods
  • Shake A Paw
  • Wild Birds Unlimited
  • Pet Supplies Plus Garwood
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

382 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 164 of the 382 stores (43%); 192 of the 208 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are pet stores, the same share as across New York.

  • PetSmart (55)
  • Petco (73)
  • Pet Supplies Plus (24)
  • Pet Goods (2)
  • Shake A Paw (1)
  • Wild Birds Unlimited (6)
  • Pet Supplies Plus Garwood (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Petco 73
  • 2 PetSmart 55
  • 3 Pet Supplies Plus 24
  • 4 Wild Birds Unlimited 6
  • 5 Pet Central 6
  • 6 Choice Pet 4
  • 7 The Pet Market 3
  • 8 Whole Pets Market 3
  • 9 Pet Valu 2
  • 10 The Bird House 2
  • 11 Pet Pantry Warehouse 2
  • 12 NJ Exotic Pets 2
  • 13 Canine Styles 2
  • 14 Home Towne Pet Shoppe 2
  • 15 Muddy Paws 2
  • 16 Pet Goods 2
  • 17 Pet Store 1
  • 18 Monster Aquarium Inc 1
  • 19 Healthy Pets 1
  • 20 Paws on Pineapple 1
  • 21 Wipe Your Paws 1
  • 22 A & R Reptiles and Aquariums 1
  • 23 Cornerstone Pets 1
  • 24 Love Thy Pet 1
  • 25 Tropical Pets 1
  • 26 Cross Bronx Pet Shop 1
  • 27 Nature's Reef and Reptile 1
  • 28 Little Creatures 1
  • 29 Paws Pet Boutique 1
  • 30 Roger's Pet Supplies & Feed 1
  • 31 Lucky Pet NY 1
  • 32 Fluffy Paws Pet Supplies 1
  • 33 Mike's Pet Center 1
  • 34 Critter Place LLC 1
  • 35 The Fish Store 1
  • 36 72 Lucky Lotto 1
  • 37 Animal Pantry 1
  • 38 Discus Madness Inc 1
  • 39 Total Pet Care 1
  • 40 PicKFish Pets 1
  • 41 Pet Town 1
  • 42 Acme Pet Food 1
  • 43 Wagging Tails 1
  • 44 Doggie Sweets 1
  • 45 All in 1 Petshop 1
  • 46 Last Place On Earth 1
  • 47 Happy Feet Pet Shop II 1
  • 48 PetPort 1
  • 49 Pop Corals 1
  • 50 One Stop Pet Shop 1

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