Trends · data through August 2026

Convenience Stores in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 1,454 stores from 470 convenience stores chains in North Carolina. Kwik Stop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of EPMart and Quik Mart.

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
470
Tracked stores
1,454
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked convenience stores 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. Kwik Stop and EPMart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kwik Stop ▲2 +19.8%
2 E EPMart ▲2 +17.4%
3 Q Quik Mart logo Quik Mart ▲2 +16.8%
4 E Express Mart - +16.0%
5 Q Quik Stop logo Quik Stop - +15.4%
6 T Tommy's Mini Mart ▲2 +15.0%
7 D Duck Thru logo Duck Thru ▲2 +12.4%
8 F Fast Stop - +10.9%
9 C Corner Store ▲3 +8.9%
10 C Country Store ▲1 +8.0%
11 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - +7.9%
12 E Energy Mart Stores - +7.2%
13 K Kingsway ▼2 +6.0%
14 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲1 +5.4%
15 O One Stop logo One Stop ▲1 +4.6%
  • Circle K
  • Sheetz
  • 7-Eleven
  • Wawa
  • Refuel
  • Handy Mart
  • Short Stop Food Mart
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,454 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Circle K (417)
  • Sheetz (136)
  • 7-Eleven (114)
  • Wawa (15)
  • Refuel (53)
  • Handy Mart (37)
  • Short Stop Food Mart (27)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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