Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 41,019 stores from 19,268 retail and consumer chains in North Carolina. GameStop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sam's Xpress Car Wash and Culver's.

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
19,268
Tracked stores
41,019
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. GameStop and Sam's Xpress Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲21 +19.7%
2 S Sam's Xpress Car Wash logo Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲19 +19.4%
3 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲14 +16.7%
4 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲7 +16.1%
5 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲17 +15.9%
6 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲9 +15.0%
7 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲13 +14.6%
8 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲3 +14.5%
9 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲10 +13.8%
10 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲13 +13.5%
11 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More ▲10 +11.0%
12 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲2 +10.4%
13 M Marshalls logo Marshalls ▲3 +10.2%
14 B Banfield Pet Hospital logo Banfield Pet Hospital ▲6 +10.0%
15 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲6 +9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 41,019 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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