Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Charlottesville, VA

Iceflower tracks 1,691 stores from 1,472 retail and consumer chains in Charlottesville, VA. Fisher Auto Parts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Grit Coffee and Wawa.

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
1,472
Tracked stores
1,691
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Fisher Auto Parts and Grit Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Fisher Auto Parts ▲2 +16.4%
2 Grit Coffee - +14.3%
3 Wawa - +12.9%
4 Dollar Tree - +12.3%
5 Sheetz ▲2 +7.9%
6 Family Dollar ▲1 +7.7%
7 Burger King ▲1 +5.9%
8 AutoZone ▲2 +5.4%
9 CVS Pharmacy ▲1 +5.3%
10 Food Lion - +5.0%
11 Dollar General - +1.9%
12 Shell ▼1 +1.7%
13 Harris Teeter - -0.4%
14 Virginia ABC - -0.5%
15 Sunoco ▼1 -1.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,691 tracked store locations in Charlottesville, VA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 65 of the 1,691 stores (4%); 1,386 of the 1,472 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 6% across Virginia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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