Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Macon-Bibb County, GA

Iceflower tracks 1,910 stores from 1,432 retail and consumer chains in Macon-Bibb County, GA. Kroger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Circle K and Murphy USA.

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
1,432
Tracked stores
1,910
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. Kroger and Circle K sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Kroger - +14.1%
2 Circle K ▲1 +10.1%
3 Murphy USA ▲3 +9.2%
4 Shell - +8.9%
5 Chick-fil-A - +8.4%
6 Walthall Oil Company ▲1 +6.5%
7 Jiffy Lube ▲2 +3.9%
8 Starbucks ▲4 +2.2%
9 Waffle House ▲2 +0.9%
10 Publix ▼1 +0.8%
11 Advance Auto Parts ▲1 +0.4%
12 CVS Pharmacy ▲1 +0.2%
13 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲5 -0.2%
14 Burger King ▲2 -0.3%
15 Dollar General - -0.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,910 tracked store locations in Macon-Bibb County, GA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 111 of the 1,910 stores (6%); 1,294 of the 1,432 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 5% across Georgia.

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