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. Hobby Lobby and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby Lobby | ▲11 | +19.8% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | ▲19 | +19.1% |
| 3 | CAVA | ▲17 | +18.9% |
| 4 | Ashley HomeStore | ▲16 | +18.0% |
| 5 | Culver's | ▲6 | +17.9% |
| 6 | Novant Health | ▲17 | +17.6% |
| 7 | Subway | ▲16 | +17.3% |
| 8 | Apotheca | ▲13 | +17.3% |
| 9 | Homesense | ▲21 | +17.2% |
| 10 | Exxon | ▲7 | +17.2% |
| 11 | Lowes Foods | ▲7 | +16.5% |
| 12 | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | ▲7 | +15.2% |
| 13 | HomeGoods | ▲6 | +14.5% |
| 14 | Amoco | ▲4 | +12.9% |
| 15 | Extra Space Storage | ▲5 | +11.8% |
Store footprint
Store map
21,619 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 733 of the 21,619 stores (3%); 12,380 of the 13,754 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Food & Drink (6,095)
- Health & Beauty (4,513)
- Retail (3,326)
- Other (3,102)
- Gas & Auto (2,512)
- Grocery & Convenience (1,114)
- Leisure & Travel (914)
- Insurance (43)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar General 169
- 2 Exxon 149
- 3 Starbucks 149
- 4 Circle K 134
- 5 United States Postal Service 132
- 6 Food Lion 119
- 7 CVS Pharmacy 111
- 8 Family Dollar 110
- 9 McDonald's 109
- 10 7-Eleven 108
- 11 Bojangles' 101
- 12 BP 88
- 13 Shell 87
- 14 Walgreens 86
- 15 Subway 79
- 16 Great Clips 79
- 17 Dollar Tree 77
- 18 Harris Teeter 75
- 19 The UPS Store 74
- 20 Wendy's 73
- 21 Domino's Pizza 67
- 22 Marathon 67
- 23 Extra Space Storage 65
- 24 Chick-fil-A 65
- 25 AutoZone 59
- 26 Advance Auto Parts 59
- 27 Jersey Mike's Subs 55
- 28 QuikTrip 55
- 29 Burger King 55
- 30 Papa John's Pizza 54
- 31 Walmart 51
- 32 O'Reilly Auto Parts 50
- 33 Dunkin' 50
- 34 Taco Bell 48
- 35 Waffle House 47
- 36 Arby's 43
- 37 Goodwill 39
- 38 Pizza Hut 38
- 39 Smoothie King 38
- 40 Verizon 37
- 41 Chipotle Mexican Grill 35
- 42 Zaxby's 35
- 43 ALDI 35
- 44 Jimmy John's 33
- 45 NAPA Auto Parts 31
- 46 Panera Bread 30
- 47 Lowe's Home Improvement 29
- 48 Valvoline Instant Oil Change 28
- 49 Publix 28
- 50 GameStop 28
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