Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Iceflower tracks 1,836 stores from 849 gas & auto chains in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. Holiday grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Valvoline Instant Oil Change and Meineke Car Care Center.

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
849
Tracked stores
1,836
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. Holiday and Valvoline Instant Oil Change sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Holiday ▲5 +18.4%
2 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲2 +18.0%
3 Meineke Car Care Center ▲3 +17.1%
4 Raceway ▲1 +16.9%
5 Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change ▲1 +13.2%
6 Tune Up Plus ▲5 +12.4%
7 Mavis Discount Tire ▲1 +10.4%
8 Whistle Express Car Wash - +9.6%
9 Speedway ▲2 +8.2%
10 Murphy USA - +7.9%
11 BP ▲1 +7.5%
12 Wawa - +6.4%
13 O'Reilly Auto Parts - +5.9%
14 Green Clean Express Auto Wash ▼1 +4.2%
15 Shell - +3.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,836 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 495 of the 1,836 stores (27%); 748 of the 849 tracked chains have a single store here.

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