Trends · data through July 2026

Convenience Stores in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 377 stores from 117 convenience stores chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Refuel grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kingsway and Quick Stop.

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
117
Tracked stores
377
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked convenience stores 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. Refuel and Kingsway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲1 +17.3%
2 K Kingsway ▲1 +11.7%
3 Q Quick Stop - +3.9%
4 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - -2.7%
5 C Circle K logo Circle K - -6.0%
6 C Crenco ▼2 -77.8%
  • Circle K
  • 7-Eleven
  • Sheetz
  • Sam's Mart
  • Cashion's Quik Stop
  • Kingsway
  • Quality Mart
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

377 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Circle K (130)
  • 7-Eleven (89)
  • Sheetz (6)
  • Sam's Mart (23)
  • Cashion's Quik Stop (2)
  • Kingsway (3)
  • Quality Mart (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Circle K logo Circle K 130
  • 2 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven 89
  • 3 S Sam's Mart logo Sam's Mart 23
  • 4 S Sheetz logo Sheetz 6
  • 5 C Crenco 5
  • 6 K Kingsway 3
  • 7 R Refuel logo Refuel 3
  • 8 Q Quick Stop 3
  • 9 C Country Store 2
  • 10 D Danny's Place 2
  • 11 E Express Mart 2
  • 12 Q Quik Stop logo Quik Stop 2
  • 13 Q Quality Mart 2
  • 14 C Cashion's Quik Stop 2
  • 15 C Crossroads Cafe at McGill’s 1
  • 16 C Community Beverage Discount 1
  • 17 A At Rozzelles Mini Mart 1
  • 18 A Adam's Grocery 1
  • 19 C County Line Grocery 1
  • 20 A Archdale Minimart & Laundry 1
  • 21 S Smart Shop 1
  • 22 M Mule Barn Mercantile 1
  • 23 E Eden Mart 1
  • 24 F Fuel N Shop 1
  • 25 Q Quick Shop Citgo 1
  • 26 K Kilborne Mart 1
  • 27 O Osei Food & Beverage 1
  • 28 S Stanley Convenience Store 1
  • 29 L Lee's Quick Stop 1
  • 30 F Family V Mini Mart 1
  • 31 M MJ Mart 1
  • 32 R Rebecca'S Country Store LLC 1
  • 33 S Shop Rite logo Shop Rite 1
  • 34 W Will's Food Store 1
  • 35 T The Brass Bird logo The Brass Bird 1
  • 36 U United Food Mart Lebanon 1
  • 37 T The Corner Store 1
  • 38 T Triple B One Stop 1
  • 39 Y York Mart 1
  • 40 S Short Stop Food Mart 1
  • 41 G GTR Convenient Store 1
  • 42 M Monroe Convenience Store 1
  • 43 G Glory Minimart 1
  • 44 G Gee Gee's Food Store 1
  • 45 R Royal Express Mart Inc 1
  • 46 F Fast Stop 1
  • 47 L Latin Mix 1
  • 48 O OT Foods 1
  • 49 S Sammy's Mini Mart 1
  • 50 O Osei Discount Food and Beverage 1

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