Trends · data through September 2026

Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 86 stores from 34 shoe stores & footwear brands in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Rack Room Shoes grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse and Shoe Carnival.

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
34
Tracked stores
86
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked shoe stores & footwear brands

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. Rack Room Shoes and Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Rack Room Shoes logo Rack Room Shoes - -2.3%
2 O Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse logo Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse ▲1 -5.8%
3 S Shoe Carnival logo Shoe Carnival - -7.0%
4 J Journeys logo Journeys ▲1 -7.7%
5 D DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse logo DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse ▼1 -8.8%
6 S Shoe Dept. Encore ▼1 -13.2%
7 V Vans logo Vans - -14.0%
8 A ALDO logo ALDO - -21.0%
  • Rack Room Shoes
  • Shoe Carnival
  • Morgan's Shoes & Bootery
  • Journeys
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse
  • Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse
  • Shoe Dept. Encore
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

86 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Rack Room Shoes (19)
  • Shoe Carnival (6)
  • Morgan's Shoes & Bootery (1)
  • Journeys (5)
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse (4)
  • Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse (4)
  • Shoe Dept. Encore (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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