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. Quality Plus and Sam's Xpress Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quality Plus | ▲21 | +17.8% |
| 2 | Sam's Xpress Car Wash | ▲15 | +16.4% |
| 3 | US Foods CHEF'STORE | ▲12 | +15.3% |
| 4 | Refuel | ▲11 | +14.7% |
| 5 | Ingles Gas Express | ▲9 | +14.5% |
| 6 | BJ's Wholesale Club | ▲7 | +13.4% |
| 7 | Raceway | ▲9 | +13.4% |
| 8 | 7-Eleven | ▲2 | +13.4% |
| 9 | Citgo | ▲15 | +13.2% |
| 10 | Sheetz | - | +11.7% |
| 11 | Culver's | ▲14 | +11.4% |
| 12 | Valvoline Instant Oil Change | ▲14 | +11.3% |
| 13 | Hobby Lobby | ▲7 | +11.0% |
| 14 | Apotheca | ▲1 | +10.9% |
| 15 | Amoco | ▲17 | +10.8% |
Store footprint
Store map
25,000 of 84,357 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 3,494 of the 84,357 stores (4%); 46,586 of the 50,729 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Food & Drink (23,996)
- Health & Beauty (15,397)
- Retail (14,822)
- Other (10,690)
- Gas & Auto (10,149)
- Grocery & Convenience (5,134)
- Leisure & Travel (4,078)
- Insurance (91)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar General 1,181
- 2 United States Postal Service 761
- 3 Food Lion 534
- 4 Exxon 521
- 5 McDonald's 497
- 6 Starbucks 482
- 7 Shell 481
- 8 Family Dollar 477
- 9 Subway 459
- 10 Circle K 431
- 11 CVS Pharmacy 382
- 12 Dollar Tree 352
- 13 Bojangles' 350
- 14 Walgreens 347
- 15 Domino's Pizza 314
- 16 BP 301
- 17 Advance Auto Parts 290
- 18 Wendy's 275
- 19 Speedway 266
- 20 Burger King 262
- 21 AutoZone 247
- 22 Great Clips 237
- 23 O'Reilly Auto Parts 232
- 24 Marathon 231
- 25 Walmart 228
- 26 Jersey Mike's Subs 227
- 27 Taco Bell 216
- 28 Chick-fil-A 215
- 29 Hardee's 212
- 30 Papa John's Pizza 205
- 31 Waffle House 198
- 32 The UPS Store 191
- 33 Harris Teeter 184
- 34 Dunkin' 174
- 35 Pizza Hut 166
- 36 NAPA Auto Parts 156
- 37 Little Caesars 156
- 38 Arby's 142
- 39 7-Eleven 138
- 40 Citgo 138
- 41 Sheetz 137
- 42 Extra Space Storage 134
- 43 Goodwill 125
- 44 Zaxby's 124
- 45 Lowe's Home Improvement 120
- 46 GameStop 119
- 47 Sunoco 117
- 48 Choice Hotels 114
- 49 Cook Out 113
- 50 Verizon 111
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