Worcester, MA Retail & Consumer Trends 2026: Growth Rankings

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. Aubuchon Hardware and Family Dollar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Aubuchon Hardware	▲6	+19.8%
2	Family Dollar	▲6	+19.3%
3	Nouria	▲1	+17.7%
4	Hannaford	-	+16.3%
5	Market Basket	-	+15.6%
6	Starbucks	▲7	+15.5%
7	Michaels	▲6	+15.5%
8	BJ's Wholesale Club	-	+14.7%
9	Walgreens	-	+12.4%
10	T.J.Maxx	-	+12.0%
11	CVS Pharmacy	▲1	+11.9%
12	Burlington	▲6	+11.9%
13	Sunoco	▲2	+11.6%
14	HomeGoods	▲7	+11.3%
15	Petco	▲5	+10.6%

Store footprint

Store map

4,083 tracked store locations in Worcester, MA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 312 of the 4,083 stores (8%); 2,557 of the 2,818 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 10% across Massachusetts.