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. Sam's Food Stores and Gulf sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam's Food Stores | ▲4 | +18.3% |
| 2 | Gulf | ▲1 | +16.9% |
| 3 | Panera Bread | ▲8 | +15.8% |
| 4 | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | ▲4 | +13.0% |
| 5 | Chipotle Mexican Grill | ▲4 | +10.7% |
| 6 | Exxon | ▲3 | +10.7% |
| 7 | Stop & Shop | - | +8.3% |
| 8 | Harbor Freight Tools | ▲1 | +7.1% |
| 9 | Five Guys | ▲4 | +6.9% |
| 10 | Mattress Firm | ▲5 | +6.6% |
| 11 | Subway | ▲3 | +5.6% |
| 12 | Dollar General | ▼1 | +4.1% |
| 13 | Walgreens | - | +3.1% |
| 14 | Chelsea Groton Bank | ▲2 | +2.5% |
| 15 | Big Y World Class Market | - | +2.2% |
Store footprint
Store map
3,221 tracked store locations in Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 167 of the 3,221 stores (5%); 2,360 of the 2,557 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across Connecticut.
- Food & Drink (859)
- Health & Beauty (552)
- Other (520)
- Retail (479)
- Gas & Auto (334)
- Grocery & Convenience (252)
- Leisure & Travel (222)
- Insurance (3)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dunkin' 52
- 2 United States Postal Service 36
- 3 Shell 29
- 4 Exxon 25
- 5 Subway 25
- 6 Starbucks 16
- 7 Dollar General 16
- 8 McDonald's 16
- 9 Citgo 13
- 10 CVS Pharmacy 12
- 11 Chelsea Groton Bank 12
- 12 Sunoco 11
- 13 Gulf 11
- 14 Stop & Shop 10
- 15 Verizon 9
- 16 H&R Block 9
- 17 Walgreens 9
- 18 Dime Bank 8
- 19 Dollar Tree 8
- 20 Charter Oak Federal Credit Union 8
- 21 Family Dollar 7
- 22 Cumberland Farms 7
- 23 Dairy Queen 7
- 24 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 7
- 25 Bestway 7
- 26 Henny Penny 7
- 27 M&T Bank 7
- 28 Domino's Pizza 6
- 29 Meineke Car Care Center 6
- 30 Advance Auto Parts 6
- 31 Ace Hardware 6
- 32 The Granite Group 6
- 33 AutoZone 6
- 34 True Value 6
- 35 Wendy's 5
- 36 Jersey Mike's Subs 5
- 37 Burger King 5
- 38 Walmart 5
- 39 Tractor Supply Co. 5
- 40 Ocean State Job Lot 5
- 41 Illiano's of Colchester 5
- 42 CubeSmart Self Storage 4
- 43 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 4
- 44 7-Eleven 4
- 45 Sam's Food Stores 4
- 46 ALDI 4
- 47 Bath & Body Works 4
- 48 O'Reilly Auto Parts 4
- 49 Moe's Southwest Grill 4
- 50 Wings 'n Pies 4
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