Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 3,593 stores from 2,839 retail and consumer chains in Asheville, NC. Marathon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Spot and Ulta Beauty.

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
2,839
Tracked stores
3,593
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. Marathon and Hot Spot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Marathon logo Marathon ▲4 +19.4%
2 H Hot Spot logo Hot Spot ▲4 +19.0%
3 U Ulta Beauty logo Ulta Beauty ▲6 +17.7%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲4 +15.6%
5 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲4 +15.1%
6 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲5 +14.9%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲11 +14.6%
8 P PetSmart logo PetSmart ▲3 +12.4%
9 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲4 +12.1%
10 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +10.0%
11 I Ingles Gas Express logo Ingles Gas Express - +9.5%
12 S Shell logo Shell - +4.9%
13 C Circle K logo Circle K ▲5 +3.5%
14 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +3.5%
15 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' ▼1 +2.9%

Store footprint

Store map

3,593 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category group.

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