Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in California

Iceflower tracks 20,520 stores from 8,007 gas & auto chains in California. Fox Rent A Car grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Express Fuel and Super Star.

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
8,007
Tracked stores
20,520
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Fox Rent A Car and Express Fuel sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Fox Rent A Car logo Fox Rent A Car ▲10 +19.6%
2 E Express Fuel ▲3 +18.0%
3 S Super Star ▲10 +17.0%
4 B Big Brand Tire & Service ▲6 +15.2%
5 K Kwik Stop ▲4 +15.1%
6 F Fastrip logo Fastrip ▲1 +13.4%
7 A Alamo Rent A Car logo Alamo Rent A Car ▲5 +12.9%
8 L Love's Travel Stop logo Love's Travel Stop ▲1 +12.5%
9 S San Diego Gasoline ▲4 +12.2%
10 7 76 logo 76 ▲1 +12.2%
11 S Stars & Stripes Travel Center ▲4 +12.2%
12 I Impark logo Impark ▲7 +10.1%
13 V Volkswagen logo Volkswagen ▲4 +9.2%
14 R Rotten Robbie logo Rotten Robbie ▲1 +8.6%
15 S Sinclair logo Sinclair ▲1 +8.1%

Store footprint

Store map

20,520 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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