Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Portland-South Portland, ME

Iceflower tracks 5,727 stores from 4,456 retail and consumer chains in Portland-South Portland, ME. Maine Optometry grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Goodwill and F.W. Webb Company.

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
4,456
Tracked stores
5,727
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. Maine Optometry and Goodwill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Maine Optometry ▲8 +20.0%
2 Goodwill ▲2 +18.1%
3 F.W. Webb Company ▲4 +15.6%
4 Exxon ▲9 +13.4%
5 Smitty's Cinema ▲9 +13.2%
6 Shell - +12.1%
7 Nouria ▲2 +11.9%
8 Rosemont Market ▲3 +10.2%
9 Bull Moose ▲3 +10.1%
10 Gulf ▲2 +9.7%
11 Cumberland Farms ▲1 +9.3%
12 Aubuchon Hardware ▲5 +7.5%
13 Irving Oil - +7.3%
14 Citgo ▲4 +6.9%
15 CVS Pharmacy ▲1 +6.4%

Store footprint

Store map

5,727 tracked store locations in Portland-South Portland, ME, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 229 of the 5,727 stores (4%); 4,109 of the 4,456 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 8% across Maine.

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