Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 4,776 stores from 3,758 retail and consumer chains in Wilmington, NC. Circle K grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Spectrum Paint Company and Murphy USA.

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
3,758
Tracked stores
4,776
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Circle K and Spectrum Paint Company sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Circle K ▲1 +17.0%
2 Spectrum Paint Company ▲5 +16.5%
3 Murphy USA - +15.5%
4 Mavis Discount Tire ▲9 +15.0%
5 The UPS Store ▲7 +13.0%
6 Exxon ▲1 +12.3%
7 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲5 +8.2%
8 EmergeOrtho ▲2 +8.1%
9 GOGAS ▲1 +8.0%
10 Hobby Lobby ▲3 +7.7%
11 AutoZone ▲2 +7.4%
12 Han-Dee Hugo's ▲5 +7.0%
13 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +6.8%
14 Speedway ▲1 +6.8%
15 Tractor Supply Co. ▲1 +6.3%

Store footprint

Store map

4,776 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 161 of the 4,776 stores (3%); 3,477 of the 3,758 tracked chains have a single store here.

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