Trends · data through September 2026

Health & Beauty trends in Rochester, NY

Iceflower tracks 517 stores from 372 health & beauty chains in Rochester, NY. Ulta Beauty grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GNC and Walgreens.

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
372
Tracked stores
517
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked health & beauty 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. Ulta Beauty and GNC sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ulta Beauty - +11.9%
2 GNC ▲1 +3.7%
3 Walgreens - +1.6%
4 CosmoProf - -1.0%
5 America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses ▲1 -4.4%
6 Supercuts - -6.0%
7 CVS Pharmacy - -7.6%
8 Sally Beauty - -8.0%
9 SEPHORA - -10.7%
10 WellNow Urgent Care - -15.5%
11 Great Clips ▲1 -17.1%
12 Sport Clips Haircuts ▼1 -24.8%
13 Visionworks ▼2 -31.8%
14 Planet Fitness - -49.2%

Store footprint

Store map

517 tracked store locations in Rochester, NY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 93 of the 517 stores (18%); 338 of the 372 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are dentists, against 6% across New York.

Top tracked chains by store count

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