Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 607 stores from 464 retail chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Harbor Freight Tools grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Michaels and Batteries Plus Bulbs.

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
464
Tracked stores
607
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. Harbor Freight Tools and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲3 +20.0%
2 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲2 +16.1%
3 B Batteries Plus Bulbs - +15.0%
4 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - +13.1%
5 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲1 +10.4%
6 O Old Navy logo Old Navy - +6.0%
7 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar ▼2 +4.2%
8 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - +2.9%
9 F Fleet Feet logo Fleet Feet - +1.2%
10 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +1.1%
11 T Target logo Target - +0.6%
12 B Best Buy logo Best Buy ▼1 +0.4%
13 S Shoe Show logo Shoe Show - -0.5%
14 C Cato Fashions logo Cato Fashions - -0.5%
15 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - -1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

607 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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