Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 291 stores from 197 retail chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Walmart and Dollar Tree.

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
197
Tracked stores
291
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. Dollar General and Walmart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +8.2%
2 W Walmart logo Walmart - +6.8%
3 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +4.7%
4 P Petco logo Petco - +4.0%
5 M Maxway logo Maxway - +2.5%
6 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement ▲1 +1.3%
7 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - +0.3%
8 O Old Navy logo Old Navy ▲1 -1.9%
9 F Fleet Feet logo Fleet Feet - -4.9%
10 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar - -5.5%
11 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - -5.6%
12 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▼1 -8.5%
13 T Target logo Target ▼1 -14.3%
14 C Chatham PTA Thrift Shop - -15.6%

Store footprint

Store map

291 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (53)
  • Clothing Store (43)
  • Department Store (25)
  • Second Hand Shop (21)
  • Smoke Shop (19)
  • Specialty Store (14)
  • Pet Store (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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