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. Busy Beaver and Five Guys sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Busy Beaver | ▲17 | +19.7% |
| 2 | Five Guys | ▲14 | +14.2% |
| 3 | Ace Hardware | ▲14 | +12.8% |
| 4 | Hobby Lobby | ▲7 | +11.2% |
| 5 | Ashley HomeStore | ▲14 | +11.0% |
| 6 | HomeGoods | ▲6 | +10.3% |
| 7 | O'Reilly Auto Parts | ▲9 | +9.2% |
| 8 | Marshalls | ▲8 | +9.0% |
| 9 | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | ▲5 | +8.5% |
| 10 | GoMart | ▲1 | +8.1% |
| 11 | Buffalo Wild Wings | ▲7 | +7.5% |
| 12 | Giant Eagle | ▲9 | +6.0% |
| 13 | Smith Oil | ▲5 | +5.9% |
| 14 | AutoZone | ▲7 | +5.2% |
| 15 | Fairfield Inn & Suites | ▲10 | +4.9% |
Store footprint
Store map
12,135 tracked store locations in West Virginia, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 937 of the 12,135 stores (8%); 6,713 of the 7,320 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 11% across the United States.
- Food & Drink (3,358)
- Retail (2,351)
- Health & Beauty (1,862)
- Gas & Auto (1,823)
- Other (1,320)
- Leisure & Travel (791)
- Grocery & Convenience (624)
- Insurance (6)
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Dollar General 341
- 2 United States Postal Service 200
- 3 Exxon 151
- 4 Subway 123
- 5 Family Dollar 122
- 6 McDonald's 109
- 7 GoMart 97
- 8 BP 94
- 9 Marathon 93
- 10 Advance Auto Parts 83
- 11 Walgreens 82
- 12 Sunoco 75
- 13 Wendy's 75
- 14 Sheetz 67
- 15 Burger King 66
- 16 Dairy Queen 65
- 17 Dollar Tree 64
- 18 7-Eleven 60
- 19 Taco Bell 59
- 20 CVS Pharmacy 56
- 21 Tudor's Biscuit World 55
- 22 Little Caesars 53
- 23 Starbucks 52
- 24 Speedway 50
- 25 Kroger 49
- 26 AutoZone 45
- 27 Arby's 44
- 28 Walmart 44
- 29 Little General 43
- 30 Pizza Hut 42
- 31 Gino's Pizza & Spaghetti House 41
- 32 Domino's Pizza 40
- 33 Goodwill 36
- 34 NAPA Auto Parts 36
- 35 Choice Hotels 35
- 36 KFC 33
- 37 Bob Evans 31
- 38 Smoker Friendly 31
- 39 BFS Foods 31
- 40 Par Mar Stores 29
- 41 Tractor Supply Co. 29
- 42 Dunkin' 28
- 43 O'Reilly Auto Parts 25
- 44 Papa John's Pizza 24
- 45 GameStop 23
- 46 Chick-fil-A 23
- 47 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 23
- 48 Circle K 23
- 49 Save A Lot 23
- 50 Long John Silver's 22
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