Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,926 stores from 1,328 retail and consumer chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of AutoZone and Dunkin'.

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
1,328
Tracked stores
1,926
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. Burger King and AutoZone sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲6 +13.7%
2 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲2 +12.9%
3 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲4 +9.9%
4 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲3 +9.8%
5 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▲1 +8.8%
6 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▲2 +8.8%
7 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲1 +7.8%
8 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - +7.8%
9 W Walmart logo Walmart - +6.4%
10 K KFC logo KFC - +6.3%
11 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy - +5.9%
12 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲2 +4.3%
13 G Great Clips logo Great Clips ▲1 +4.0%
14 P Petco logo Petco ▲1 +3.6%
15 R Refuel logo Refuel - +3.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,926 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category group.

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