Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

Iceflower tracks 10,179 stores from 6,942 retail and consumer chains in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. Newbury Comics grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Firestone Complete Auto Care and Baja's Fresh Grill.

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
6,942
Tracked stores
10,179
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. Newbury Comics and Firestone Complete Auto Care sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Newbury Comics ▲7 +17.1%
2 Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲8 +16.8%
3 Baja's Fresh Grill ▲3 +14.9%
4 Harbor Freight Tools ▲6 +13.0%
5 Santander Bank US ▲10 +11.1%
6 Victoria's Secret ▲9 +10.7%
7 Gulf ▲4 +9.0%
8 Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲4 +8.2%
9 Kay Jewelers ▼1 +7.9%
10 HomeGoods ▲2 +7.7%
11 Exxon - +7.7%
12 Chick-fil-A ▲2 +7.6%
13 Shell ▲1 +7.3%
14 Sherwin-Williams ▲2 +6.5%
15 Stop & Shop - +6.1%

Store footprint

Store map

10,179 tracked store locations in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 630 of the 10,179 stores (6%); 6,342 of the 6,942 tracked chains have a single store here.

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