Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Jacksonville, NC

Iceflower tracks 321 stores from 273 retail chains in Jacksonville, NC. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General 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
273
Tracked stores
321
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. Ace Hardware and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware - +11.5%
2 Dollar General - +8.2%
3 Dollar Tree - +1.8%
4 Walmart - +0.6%
5 Family Dollar - -3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

321 tracked store locations in Jacksonville, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 44 of the 321 stores (14%); 260 of the 273 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked retail stores here are vape & tobacco shops, against 5% across North Carolina.

  • Discount Store (43)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (35)
  • Thrift Stores (19)
  • Specialty Store (16)
  • Home Improvement Center (15)
  • Sporting Goods Store (15)
  • Flower Shop (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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