Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 2,512 stores from 1,099 gas & auto chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Sam's Xpress Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Raceway and Refuel.

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
1,099
Tracked stores
2,512
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Sam's Xpress Car Wash and Raceway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲2 +19.7%
2 Raceway ▲3 +16.2%
3 Refuel ▲2 +15.0%
4 Honest-1 Auto Care ▲3 +12.6%
5 Exxon ▲1 +12.1%
6 Black's Tire & Auto Service ▲2 +10.5%
7 Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +10.1%
8 Gerber Collision & Glass ▲2 +9.9%
9 Amoco ▲1 +7.9%
10 Caliber Collision ▲1 +7.1%
11 Fast Phil's ▲2 +6.7%
12 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲1 +6.0%
13 GATE Gas Station - +6.0%
14 Shell - +5.1%
15 QuikTrip - +4.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,512 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 566 of the 2,512 stores (23%); 972 of the 1,099 tracked chains have a single store here.

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