Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. The Paper Store and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Paper Store | ▲1 | +15.8% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | +12.4% |
| 3 | Sherwin-Williams | - | +9.6% |
| 4 | Five Below | - | +8.4% |
| 5 | Ocean State Job Lot | - | +7.2% |
| 6 | Dollar Tree | - | +6.6% |
| 7 | Goodwill | ▼1 | +6.0% |
| 8 | The Home Depot | - | +5.4% |
| 9 | Staples | - | +5.2% |
| 10 | Dollar General | - | +3.7% |
| 11 | T.J.Maxx | - | +2.5% |
| 12 | Family Dollar | - | -0.1% |
| 13 | Walmart | - | -6.0% |
- Discount Store
- Vape & Tobacco Shops
- Specialty Store
- Hardware Store
- Sporting Goods Store
- Home Improvement Center
- Flower Shop
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
321 tracked store locations in Waterbury-Shelton, CT, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 49 of the 321 stores (15%); 206 of the 237 tracked chains have a single store here. 17% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 9% across Connecticut.
- Discount Store (55)
- Vape & Tobacco Shops (31)
- Specialty Store (21)
- Hardware Store (19)
- Sporting Goods Store (14)
- Home Improvement Center (14)
- Flower Shop (12)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar General 21
- 2 Family Dollar 9
- 3 Dollar Tree 9
- 4 T.J.Maxx 5
- 5 Ace Hardware 5
- 6 Goodwill 4
- 7 SNIPES 4
- 8 Ocean State Job Lot 4
- 9 Walmart 4
- 10 The Home Depot 3
- 11 Barnes & Noble 3
- 12 Sherwin-Williams 3
- 13 The Paper Store 3
- 14 Staples 3
- 15 Five Below 3
- 16 Rainbow Shops 2
- 17 Spirit Halloween 2
- 18 SiteOne Landscape Supply 2
- 19 Tobacco World 2
- 20 Michaels 2
- 21 Hallmark 2
- 22 Bath & Body Works 2
- 23 Target 2
- 24 Michaels Jewelers 2
- 25 Burlington 2
- 26 Harbor Freight Tools 2
- 27 Once Upon A Child 2
- 28 Marshalls 2
- 29 Smooth Vaporz 2
- 30 MadRag 1
- 31 Waterbury Liquidators 1
- 32 Smokers Land 1
- 33 Soulbury Cultural Gifts Store 1
- 34 Pet Supplies Plus 1
- 35 Smoke Central 1
- 36 SmokeRite Smoke Shop 1
- 37 CT Smoke N Vape LLC 1
- 38 Shoe Dept. Encore 1
- 39 Device Doctor 1
- 40 Piercing Pagoda 1
- 41 ZarMi bra boutique 1
- 42 Southbury Style 1
- 43 Tobacco City 1
- 44 Sullivan's Jewelers 1
- 45 One Dollar Zone 1
- 46 Infinite Heroes 1
- 47 Dollar Forever 1
- 48 Kay Jewelers 1
- 49 Choice Pet 1
- 50 Lifestyles 1
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