Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 3,286 stores from 1,783 retail chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Homesense grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rainbow Shops and Kay Jewelers.

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
1,783
Tracked stores
3,286
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. Homesense and Rainbow Shops sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Homesense logo Homesense ▲3 +18.5%
2 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲6 +17.3%
3 K Kay Jewelers logo Kay Jewelers ▲5 +16.1%
4 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲4 +15.9%
5 T Tobacco House ▲12 +15.0%
6 A Ashley HomeStore logo Ashley HomeStore ▲6 +14.5%
7 A American Eagle logo American Eagle ▲5 +12.5%
8 C Cost Plus World Market logo Cost Plus World Market ▲7 +12.1%
9 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +11.6%
10 G Guitar Center logo Guitar Center ▲7 +10.3%
11 P Palmetto Moon logo Palmetto Moon ▲9 +10.0%
12 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲1 +9.7%
13 J J.Crew logo J.Crew ▲5 +8.4%
14 B Buddha's Bazaar Smoke Shop ▲5 +8.3%
15 P Pandora logo Pandora ▲6 +8.2%

Store footprint

Store map

3,286 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

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