Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Goldsboro, NC

Iceflower tracks 919 stores from 771 retail and consumer chains in Goldsboro, NC. Circle K grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Bojangles' and Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries.

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
771
Tracked stores
919
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. Circle K and Bojangles' sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Circle K - +10.3%
2 Bojangles' - +7.2%
3 Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries ▲2 +7.0%
4 Speedway ▲1 +6.8%
5 Dollar General - +6.5%
6 Burger King ▲2 +5.1%
7 Shell - +4.1%
8 Southern Bank ▲2 +3.5%
9 Family Dollar ▲1 +1.3%
10 McDonald's ▼1 0.0%
11 Walmart - -0.1%
12 AutoZone ▲1 -0.2%
13 Food Lion - -1.5%
14 Papa John's Pizza ▲1 -1.9%
15 Walgreens ▼1 -3.9%

Store footprint

Store map

919 tracked store locations in Goldsboro, NC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 57 of the 919 stores (6%); 719 of the 771 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 12% across North Carolina.

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