Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 3,257 stores from 921 gas & auto chains in Minnesota. Cycle Gear grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Simonson Station Stores and Sinclair Oil.

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
921
Tracked stores
3,257
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Cycle Gear and Simonson Station Stores sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Cycle Gear ▲2 +16.1%
2 Simonson Station Stores ▲6 +15.6%
3 Sinclair Oil ▲2 +14.0%
4 BP - +13.5%
5 Cenex - +13.3%
6 Love's Travel Stop ▲1 +12.7%
7 Kwik Trip - +8.4%
8 Casey's ▲1 +8.4%
9 Take 5 Oil Change ▲1 +7.8%
10 Mister Car Wash - +7.4%
11 Impark ▲4 +6.5%
12 Camping World ▲1 +5.8%
13 Advance Auto Parts ▲5 +5.5%
14 TGK Automotive ▲3 +4.8%
15 Little Dukes ▲1 +4.6%

Store footprint

Store map

3,257 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,140 of the 3,257 stores (35%); 803 of the 921 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are auto repair services, against 18% across the United States.

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