Trends · data through September 2026

Discount Stores in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 435 stores from 41 discount store chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and pOpshelf.

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
41
Tracked stores
435
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount store 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 Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +3.9%
2 Dollar Tree - +1.7%
3 pOpshelf - +1.0%
4 Ollie's Bargain Outlet - -1.3%
5 Family Dollar - -9.8%
6 Roses Discount Store - -14.8%
7 Big Lots - -22.0%
  • Dollar General
  • Dollar Tree
  • Family Dollar
  • Five Below
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet
  • Big Lots
  • Roses Discount Store
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

435 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 381 of the 435 stores (88%); 30 of the 41 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 16% across North Carolina.

  • Dollar General (169)
  • Dollar Tree (77)
  • Family Dollar (110)
  • Five Below (10)
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet (6)
  • Big Lots (15)
  • Roses Discount Store (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Dollar General 169
  • 2 Family Dollar 110
  • 3 Dollar Tree 77
  • 4 Big Lots 15
  • 5 Five Below 10
  • 6 Ollie's Bargain Outlet 6
  • 7 pOpshelf 6
  • 8 Roses Discount Store 5
  • 9 Roses 3
  • 10 Maxway 2
  • 11 Ace Liquidation Center 2
  • 12 King Discount Liquidation & General Store 1
  • 13 Dollar Express 1
  • 14 The Antique Barn & Artisan Marketplace 1
  • 15 Daily Deals Variety Discount Store 1
  • 16 Sams Discount Store and Everyday Yardsale 1
  • 17 Checkout Warehouse 1
  • 18 Poplar Pantry 1
  • 19 Gunter’s Grove Deals & More 1
  • 20 Black Friday Deals 1
  • 21 Urbina liquidator 1
  • 22 BIN 5 1
  • 23 Bargain Hunt 1
  • 24 Mary's Liquidations 1
  • 25 The Bin Market 1
  • 26 Curt's Variety of Rockwell 1
  • 27 Carolina Renovation Warehouse 1
  • 28 Xtreme Scrubs, Safety & More 1
  • 29 Tar Heel Kids Consignment 1
  • 30 Where Ya Bin Matthews 1
  • 31 Fast Design 1
  • 32 DaaBIN Store 1
  • 33 Ziggys Closeouts 1
  • 34 Johnny's Discount Fireworks and Grocery 1
  • 35 Discount Liquidation Warehouse 1
  • 36 Mighty Dollar 1
  • 37 Bargain City 1
  • 38 Bin Kingdom 1
  • 39 Vista Bins and Deals 1
  • 40 Bargain Max 1
  • 41 Beam Boys Bargains 1

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