Lake Charles, LA Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Chevron and Murphy USA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Chevron	-	+19.0%
2	Murphy USA	▲1	+18.5%
3	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲3	+18.2%
4	Shell	-	+16.2%
5	Circle K	▲1	+13.6%
6	Rouses Markets	▲1	+12.8%
7	Super Saver	▲4	+11.3%
8	AutoZone	▲4	+9.8%
9	Dollar General	▼1	+7.6%
10	Dollar Tree	▲2	+5.5%
11	Walmart	-	+3.9%
12	Burger King	▲7	+3.3%
13	Family Dollar	▲3	+1.5%
14	CVS Pharmacy	▲2	-2.9%
15	Subway	▲1	-3.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,180 tracked store locations in Lake Charles, LA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 112 of the 1,180 stores (9%); 690 of the 801 tracked chains have a single store here.