Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 9,925 stores from 4,135 gas & auto chains in North Carolina. Alamo Rent A Car grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Spot and TLG Peterbilt.

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
4,135
Tracked stores
9,925
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. Alamo Rent A Car and Hot Spot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Alamo Rent A Car logo Alamo Rent A Car ▲9 +19.1%
2 H Hot Spot logo Hot Spot ▲7 +19.1%
3 T TLG Peterbilt - +18.2%
4 R Royal Farms logo Royal Farms ▲1 +16.4%
5 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA - +14.4%
6 P Pep Boys logo Pep Boys ▲9 +12.4%
7 M Murphy Express ▲6 +12.2%
8 S Sam's Xpress Car Wash logo Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲1 +11.3%
9 C Chevrolet ▲11 +10.7%
10 Q Quality Plus ▲1 +10.6%
11 T Thomas Tire & Automotive ▲5 +10.2%
12 M Mobil logo Mobil ▲4 +9.6%
13 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲1 +9.6%
14 E Express Mart ▲2 +9.3%
15 I Ingles Gas Express logo Ingles Gas Express ▲1 +9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

9,925 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category.

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