Trends · data through August 2026

Retail trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 891 stores from 442 retail chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Rainbow Shops grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Play It Again Sports and Journeys.

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
442
Tracked stores
891
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Rainbow Shops and Play It Again Sports sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲3 +20.0%
2 P Play It Again Sports logo Play It Again Sports - +18.9%
3 J Journeys logo Journeys ▲3 +18.1%
4 M Marshalls logo Marshalls - +15.3%
5 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲3 +15.1%
6 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲1 +13.5%
7 L Lids logo Lids ▲1 +13.0%
8 A Academy Sports + Outdoors logo Academy Sports + Outdoors ▲1 +12.8%
9 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale ▲2 +11.2%
10 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲2 +11.0%
11 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲1 +10.9%
12 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲3 +10.8%
13 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods - +10.7%
14 P Plato's Closet logo Plato's Closet ▲2 +10.0%
15 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - +8.5%

Store footprint

Store map

891 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

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