Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 83,340 stores from 50,601 retail and consumer chains in North Carolina. Murphy USA grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sam's Xpress Car Wash and BJ's Wholesale Club.

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
50,601
Tracked stores
83,340
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. Murphy USA and Sam's Xpress Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA ▲2 +19.9%
2 S Sam's Xpress Car Wash logo Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲15 +16.7%
3 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club ▲8 +16.6%
4 Q Quality Plus ▲19 +15.9%
5 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲12 +14.8%
6 I Ingles Gas Express logo Ingles Gas Express ▲11 +14.4%
7 R Raceway logo Raceway ▲11 +14.0%
8 U US Foods CHEF'STORE logo US Foods CHEF'STORE ▲11 +14.0%
9 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven ▲2 +13.4%
10 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲6 +13.3%
11 C Citgo logo Citgo ▲12 +13.3%
12 A Apotheca ▲5 +12.4%
13 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲15 +11.5%
14 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - +11.4%
15 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲15 +11.3%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 83,340 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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