Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 1,745 stores from 683 retail chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. DTLR grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rainbow Shops and Burlington.

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
683
Tracked stores
1,745
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. DTLR and Rainbow Shops sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D DTLR logo DTLR ▲10 +16.5%
2 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲8 +15.3%
3 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲1 +15.2%
4 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲3 +15.0%
5 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲2 +14.3%
6 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲8 +13.9%
7 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲6 +13.8%
8 F Fleet Feet logo Fleet Feet ▲6 +13.4%
9 K Kirkland's logo Kirkland's ▲10 +12.8%
10 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲2 +11.5%
11 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲2 +11.1%
12 J Journeys logo Journeys ▲9 +9.8%
13 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +8.8%
14 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▲7 +8.7%
15 S Smokers Depot ▲6 +8.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,745 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

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