Winston-Salem, NC Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Murphy USA and Shell sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Murphy USA	▲6	+19.7%
2	Shell	▲1	+18.9%
3	Enterprise Rent-A-Car	▲6	+15.4%
4	Exxon	-	+15.0%
5	CashPoints ATM	▲1	+12.7%
6	Valvoline Instant Oil Change	▲3	+11.6%
7	Subway	▲8	+11.4%
8	Circle K	-	+11.3%
9	Discount Tire	▲9	+11.2%
10	Goodwill	▲6	+10.2%
11	Sheetz	-	+10.1%
12	CVS Pharmacy	▲1	+10.0%
13	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲2	+9.4%
14	Dollar General	-	+8.4%
15	Elizabeth's Pizza	▲11	+8.3%

Store footprint

Store map

4,466 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 216 of the 4,466 stores (5%); 2,871 of the 3,145 tracked chains have a single store here.