Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Richmond, VA

Iceflower tracks 1,346 stores from 614 gas & auto chains in Richmond, VA. Valvoline Instant Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Take 5 Oil Change and Sheetz.

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
614
Tracked stores
1,346
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 Take 5 Oil Change sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +18.8%
2 Take 5 Oil Change ▲2 +18.3%
3 Sheetz - +15.7%
4 Allen Tire ▲4 +12.2%
5 Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers ▲2 +10.6%
6 O'Reilly Auto Parts - +9.6%
7 AutoZone ▲1 +7.2%
8 Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲1 +7.1%
9 Grease Monkey ▲4 +6.9%
10 Wawa - +6.5%
11 Caliber Collision ▲2 +4.6%
12 Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲1 +4.3%
13 Exxon - +3.7%
14 Raceway ▲1 +3.4%
15 Dash In ▲2 +1.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,346 tracked store locations in Richmond, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 328 of the 1,346 stores (24%); 525 of the 614 tracked chains have a single store here.

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.