Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

Iceflower tracks 352 stores from 195 gas & auto chains in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC. Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Circle K and O'Reilly Auto Parts.

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
195
Tracked stores
352
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change and Circle K sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change logo Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change ▲2 +12.8%
2 C Circle K logo Circle K - +9.7%
3 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲2 +6.2%
4 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - +5.4%
5 Q Quality Plus ▲1 +2.4%
6 R Raceway logo Raceway ▲1 +1.6%
7 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲3 -0.6%
8 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲2 -2.5%
9 B BP logo BP ▲2 -2.6%
10 S Sunoco logo Sunoco - -6.4%
11 M Mavis Discount Tire logo Mavis Discount Tire ▲1 -8.3%
12 S Shell logo Shell - -8.5%
13 C Cubbard Express logo Cubbard Express - -13.9%
14 C Citgo logo Citgo ▼1 -17.6%
15 S Speedway logo Speedway ▼1 -17.7%

Store footprint

Store map

352 tracked store locations in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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