Trends · data through July 2026

Convenience Stores in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 1,458 stores from 471 convenience stores chains in North Carolina. Kwik Stop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of EPMart and Quik Stop.

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
471
Tracked stores
1,458
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked convenience stores 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. Kwik Stop and EPMart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kwik Stop ▲2 +19.6%
2 E EPMart ▲2 +18.3%
3 Q Quik Stop logo Quik Stop - +17.7%
4 Q Quik Mart logo Quik Mart ▲2 +17.3%
5 T Tommy's Mini Mart ▲2 +15.3%
6 E Express Mart - +15.2%
7 D Duck Thru logo Duck Thru ▲4 +13.0%
8 F Fast Stop - +11.0%
9 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - +8.2%
10 C Corner Store ▲3 +8.1%
11 C Country Store ▲1 +8.0%
12 E Energy Mart Stores - +7.2%
13 B Brew Thru logo Brew Thru ▲1 +6.9%
14 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲1 +5.5%
15 K Kingsway ▼2 +5.4%
  • Circle K
  • Sheetz
  • 7-Eleven
  • Wawa
  • Refuel
  • Handy Mart
  • Short Stop Food Mart
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,458 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Circle K (415)
  • Sheetz (138)
  • 7-Eleven (114)
  • Wawa (15)
  • Refuel (53)
  • Handy Mart (37)
  • Short Stop Food Mart (27)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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