Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 11,559 stores from 5,904 retail chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Pandora grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Portabella and Bergdorf Goodman.

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
5,904
Tracked stores
11,559
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. Pandora and Portabella sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Pandora ▲7 +16.2%
2 Portabella ▲3 +15.8%
3 Bergdorf Goodman ▲4 +14.6%
4 Goodwill ▲7 +14.1%
5 Gap ▲4 +13.7%
6 Uniqlo ▲5 +12.7%
7 Micro Center ▲5 +12.7%
8 Windsor Fashions ▲6 +12.3%
9 Ace Hardware ▲8 +11.6%
10 Cotton On ▲11 +11.0%
11 Harbor Freight Tools ▲5 +10.9%
12 PuffCity Smoke Shop ▲4 +10.3%
13 LEGO ▲7 +10.3%
14 Jaeger Lumber ▲10 +10.2%
15 Vineyard Vines - +9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

11,559 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 771 of the 11,559 stores (7%); 5,294 of the 5,904 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 12% across New York.

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