Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 1,749 stores from 679 retail chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of DTLR and GameStop.

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
679
Tracked stores
1,749
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. Five Below and DTLR sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲4 +18.2%
2 D DTLR logo DTLR ▲10 +16.3%
3 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲9 +15.8%
4 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲2 +15.8%
5 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲9 +14.9%
6 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲1 +14.2%
7 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲8 +13.8%
8 F Fleet Feet logo Fleet Feet ▲8 +13.1%
9 K Kirkland's logo Kirkland's ▲9 +12.1%
10 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▲8 +11.6%
11 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲2 +11.6%
12 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲1 +11.2%
13 J Journeys logo Journeys ▲7 +10.1%
14 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +8.8%
15 B Bealls logo Bealls ▲9 +8.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,749 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

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