Springfield, MA Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Dollar General and Five Below sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Dollar General	▲6	+18.3%
2	Five Below	▲4	+17.8%
3	Exxon	▲7	+14.4%
4	Westfield Bank	▲7	+13.6%
5	Dollar Tree	▲1	+12.4%
6	Racing Mart	▲4	+8.4%
7	Gulf	-	+7.7%
8	Great Clips	-	+7.6%
9	Panera Bread	▲2	+7.0%
10	Advance Auto Parts	▲2	+6.2%
11	Shell	-	+4.9%
12	Citgo	▲3	+2.3%
13	Cumberland Farms	-	+2.0%
14	Pride Stores	-	+1.7%
15	United States Postal Service	-	+1.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,880 tracked store locations in Springfield, MA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 154 of the 1,880 stores (8%); 1,149 of the 1,275 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 10% across Massachusetts.