Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 11,213 stores from 7,554 retail and consumer chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Valvoline Instant Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ABC Store and Burlington.

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
7,554
Tracked stores
11,213
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. Valvoline Instant Oil Change and ABC Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲13 +19.7%
2 ABC Store ▲18 +16.3%
3 Burlington ▲4 +14.5%
4 Culver's ▲9 +13.5%
5 Dunkin' ▲11 +12.9%
6 Hobby Lobby ▲2 +12.3%
7 Shell ▲1 +11.8%
8 Mavis Discount Tire ▲14 +10.9%
9 Eggs Up Grill ▲4 +10.6%
10 Circle K ▲1 +9.1%
11 Murphy USA ▲2 +9.1%
12 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +8.5%
13 NCDMV Driver License Office - +7.6%
14 Exxon ▲2 +7.4%
15 Sheetz - +7.0%

Store footprint

Store map

11,213 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 355 of the 11,213 stores (3%); 6,724 of the 7,554 tracked chains have a single store here.

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