Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 21,194 stores from 13,584 retail and consumer chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CAVA and Subway.

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
13,584
Tracked stores
21,194
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. Hobby Lobby and CAVA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲13 +19.9%
2 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲16 +19.2%
3 S Subway logo Subway ▲15 +18.7%
4 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲7 +18.2%
5 A Apotheca ▲12 +17.7%
6 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲7 +17.3%
7 H Homesense logo Homesense ▲16 +16.1%
8 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲7 +15.6%
9 N Novant Health logo Novant Health ▲14 +15.1%
10 G GATE Gas Station logo GATE Gas Station ▲10 +14.4%
11 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▲6 +14.3%
12 A Amoco logo Amoco ▲4 +14.1%
13 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲6 +13.5%
14 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage ▲6 +12.0%
15 M MyEyeDr. logo MyEyeDr. ▲1 +11.7%

Store footprint

Store map

21,194 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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