Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Burlington, NC

Iceflower tracks 277 stores from 225 retail chains in Burlington, NC. Walmart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General and Dollar Tree.

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
225
Tracked stores
277
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Walmart and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Walmart logo Walmart - +3.9%
2 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +3.2%
3 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - +1.4%
4 C Cato Fashions logo Cato Fashions - -3.3%
5 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar - -12.9%
  • Discount Store
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Retail Location
  • Flower Shop
  • Thrift Stores
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

277 tracked store locations in Burlington, NC, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (52)
  • Women's Contemporary (11)
  • Sporting Goods Store (11)
  • Specialty Store (10)
  • Retail Location (9)
  • Flower Shop (9)
  • Thrift Stores (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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