Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,215 stores from 569 gas & auto chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Valvoline Instant Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Snappy Lube and Valero.

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
569
Tracked stores
1,215
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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 Snappy Lube sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +16.2%
2 Snappy Lube ▲2 +16.1%
3 Valero ▲3 +11.0%
4 Shell - +8.6%
5 Mavis Discount Tire - +7.7%
6 Circle K - +5.9%
7 Murphy USA - +5.9%
8 Exxon ▲1 +4.3%
9 Mobil - +4.1%
10 Sheetz - +3.9%
11 Citgo ▲1 +3.3%
12 Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +3.2%
13 7-Eleven - +2.8%
14 Refuel - +2.8%
15 Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲1 +2.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,215 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 234 of the 1,215 stores (19%); 492 of the 569 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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