Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Burlington, NC

Iceflower tracks 283 stores from 226 retail chains in Burlington, NC. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Walmart and Dollar Tree.

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
226
Tracked stores
283
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Dollar General and Walmart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +4.4%
2 Walmart - +3.6%
3 Dollar Tree - +1.6%
4 Cato Fashions - -3.5%
5 Family Dollar - -8.5%
  • Discount Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Specialty Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Flower Shop
  • Retail Location
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

283 tracked store locations in Burlington, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 47 of the 283 stores (17%); 207 of the 226 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are thrift stores, against 5% across North Carolina.

  • Discount Store (54)
  • Sporting Goods Store (12)
  • Women's Contemporary (11)
  • Specialty Store (10)
  • Thrift Stores (10)
  • Flower Shop (9)
  • Retail Location (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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