Burlington, NC 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. O'Reilly Auto Parts and Sheetz sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲3	+15.1%
2	Sheetz	-	+11.4%
3	Starbucks	▲2	+10.2%
4	BP	▲2	+9.0%
5	Circle K	-	+8.7%
6	GameStop	▲1	+7.4%
7	Shell	-	+6.6%
8	Hardee's	▲4	+5.2%
9	Citgo	▲1	+4.1%
10	Dollar General	-	+3.5%
11	Walmart	-	+2.6%
12	Walgreens	-	+1.9%
13	Cook Out	-	+1.7%
14	CVS Pharmacy	-	+1.2%
15	Chick-fil-A	-	+1.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,296 tracked store locations in Burlington, NC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 64 of the 1,296 stores (5%); 928 of the 1,034 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 6% across North Carolina.