Metro by metro
The leading pet store chains in every North Carolina metro area
Tracked pet store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. PetSmart leads in all 8 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in North Carolina as a whole, Petco stands out in 2 metro areas, Hollywood Feed in 2 metro areas, and Pet Supplies Plus in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Petco
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Asheville, NC 1.7× · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 2×
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Hollywood Feed
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Charlotte, NC (NC part) 2.6× · Raleigh-Cary, NC 1.9×
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Pet Supplies Plus
Relative #1 in Wilmington, NC, 2.8× its share in North Carolina
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Petsense by Tractor Supply
Relative #1 in Greensboro-High Point, NC, 1.5× its share in North Carolina
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Pet Supermarket
Relative #1 in Winston-Salem, NC, 4.6× its share in North Carolina
Not enough tracked stores: Burlington, NC · Fayetteville, NC · Goldsboro, NC · Greenville, NC · Jacksonville, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
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PetSmart
#1 in all 8 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Burlington, NC · Fayetteville, NC · Goldsboro, NC · Greenville, NC · Jacksonville, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pet store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to North Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in North Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in North Carolina and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of North Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in North Carolina. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked pet store 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. The Fish Room and Petsense by Tractor Supply sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | The Fish Room | - | +14.2% |
| 2 | Petsense by Tractor Supply | - | +4.3% |
| 3 | Pet Supplies Plus | - | +3.2% |
| 4 | Petco | - | +0.5% |
| 5 | Unleashed | - | +0.5% |
| 6 | Feeders Pet Supply | - | +0.4% |
| 7 | PetSmart | - | -0.7% |
| 8 | Pet Supermarket | - | -1.0% |
| 9 | Hollywood Feed | - | -1.7% |
| 10 | The Natural Dog | - | -8.2% |
| 11 | Wild Birds Unlimited | - | -13.5% |
- PetSmart
- Petco
- Pet Supplies Plus
- Petsense by Tractor Supply
- Hollywood Feed
- Pet Supermarket
- Care-A-Lot Pet Supply
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
404 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 167 of the 404 stores (41%); 169 of the 188 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are pet stores, the same share as across the United States.
- PetSmart (68)
- Petco (30)
- Pet Supplies Plus (21)
- Petsense by Tractor Supply (23)
- Hollywood Feed (18)
- Pet Supermarket (18)
- Care-A-Lot Pet Supply (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 PetSmart 68
- 2 Petco 30
- 3 Wild Birds Unlimited 25
- 4 Petsense by Tractor Supply 23
- 5 Pet Supplies Plus 21
- 6 Hollywood Feed 18
- 7 Pet Supermarket 18
- 8 The Natural Dog 6
- 9 Unleashed 4
- 10 The Fish Room 3
- 11 Feeders Pet Supply 3
- 12 Lowry Livestock Feeds Inc. 2
- 13 EarthWise Pet 2
- 14 Upscale Aquatics 2
- 15 Pet Mania 2
- 16 The Pet Stop 2
- 17 Animal House 2
- 18 Coastal Reef 2
- 19 Bill's Pet Shop 2
- 20 Blue Ridge Pet Supplies 1
- 21 Bird House on the Greenway 1
- 22 Wolfe Ridge Pet Supplies 1
- 23 Jarvisburg Feed and Supply 1
- 24 Warren Animal Feed 1
- 25 Howlin at the Moon Bakery 1
- 26 Hendersonville Pet Shop 1
- 27 Val's PET DEPOT 1
- 28 Canine Cafe 1
- 29 BRIJI'S Farm and Garden 1
- 30 CB&K Exotics 1
- 31 Poodles and Bob 1
- 32 Farm City 1
- 33 Highlands Mountain Paws 1
- 34 Reef Magic 1
- 35 Village Paws and Claws 1
- 36 Pet Wants North Raleigh 1
- 37 Last Place On Earth Petshop 1
- 38 The Feed Bag 1
- 39 Care-A-Lot Pet Supply 1
- 40 Sandhills Feed Supply Co 1
- 41 Proformance Pet Supply 1
- 42 Salty's of Lake Norman 1
- 43 Champion Milling Co. 1
- 44 Fairview Feed 1
- 45 Best 4K9 Gunter's Crossing 1
- 46 Coastal Paws 1
- 47 Performance Dog Training 1
- 48 Paw Prints Pet Boutique 1
- 49 Wright's Backyard Birding Center 1
- 50 Carroll's Pets & Grooming Center 1
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