Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,935 stores from 1,322 retail and consumer chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. AutoZone grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Dunkin'.

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
1,322
Tracked stores
1,935
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. AutoZone and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲3 +13.8%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲6 +13.8%
3 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲4 +10.3%
4 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲2 +9.6%
5 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▲2 +8.9%
6 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods - +8.5%
7 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - +8.1%
8 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲2 +7.9%
9 W Walmart logo Walmart - +6.8%
10 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy - +6.2%
11 K KFC logo KFC - +6.1%
12 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement ▲1 +5.1%
13 G Great Clips logo Great Clips - +4.2%
14 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲2 +4.1%
15 P Petco logo Petco ▲1 +3.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,935 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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