Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

Iceflower tracks 517 stores from 367 retail chains in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC. Cato Fashions grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Bealls and Dollar General.

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
367
Tracked stores
517
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. Cato Fashions and Bealls sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cato Fashions logo Cato Fashions - +12.4%
2 B Bealls logo Bealls ▲3 +9.4%
3 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +8.6%
4 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - +5.6%
5 W Walmart logo Walmart - +1.9%
6 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +1.1%
7 B Belk logo Belk - +0.7%
8 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - -5.6%
9 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree - -8.4%
10 B Bath & Body Works logo Bath & Body Works - -10.7%
11 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▼1 -26.9%
12 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - -29.1%
13 B Big Lots logo Big Lots ▼1 -29.1%
14 F Family Dollar logo Family Dollar ▼1 -29.6%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

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