Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 5,517 stores from 3,135 retail and consumer chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sam's Xpress Car Wash and The UPS Store.

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
3,135
Tracked stores
5,517
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. Outback Steakhouse and Sam's Xpress Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲15 +18.5%
2 S Sam's Xpress Car Wash logo Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲12 +18.1%
3 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲8 +17.5%
4 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲5 +16.0%
5 C Char-Grill logo Char-Grill ▲5 +15.2%
6 M Marshalls logo Marshalls ▲2 +14.8%
7 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲10 +14.5%
8 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More ▲3 +13.9%
9 A Academy Sports + Outdoors logo Academy Sports + Outdoors ▲7 +12.2%
10 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲8 +10.5%
11 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲6 +10.4%
12 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲6 +10.3%
13 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲2 +10.2%
14 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲1 +10.1%
15 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲7 +9.5%

Store footprint

Store map

5,517 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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