Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 148 stores from 13 teen & young adult apparel chains in North Carolina. Buckle grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Topic and Aéropostale.

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
13
Tracked stores
148
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel 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. Buckle and Hot Topic sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Buckle logo Buckle ▲2 +8.1%
2 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic - +7.7%
3 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - +5.4%
4 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - +2.0%
5 P PacSun logo PacSun - -0.7%
6 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - -6.6%
7 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▼2 -7.0%
8 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez - -12.1%
9 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters - -81.4%
  • American Eagle
  • Buckle
  • PacSun
  • Spencer's
  • Aéropostale
  • Hot Topic
  • Zumiez
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

148 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • American Eagle (29)
  • Buckle (13)
  • PacSun (15)
  • Spencer's (21)
  • Aéropostale (15)
  • Hot Topic (15)
  • Zumiez (13)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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