Trends · data through September 2026

Women's Contemporary in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 464 stores from 326 women's contemporary chains in North Carolina. J.Crew grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Express Factory Outlet and Palmetto Moon.

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
326
Tracked stores
464
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked women's contemporary 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. J.Crew and Express Factory Outlet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J J.Crew logo J.Crew ▲1 +17.8%
2 E Express Factory Outlet logo Express Factory Outlet ▲4 +16.0%
3 P Palmetto Moon logo Palmetto Moon ▲1 +15.2%
4 U Uniquities ▲5 +14.8%
5 B Banana Republic logo Banana Republic ▲1 +12.5%
6 A Altar'd State logo Altar'd State - +11.7%
7 V Versona logo Versona ▲2 +8.5%
8 V Vineyard Vines logo Vineyard Vines ▲1 +5.8%
9 E Express logo Express - +3.6%
10 M Monkee's ▲1 +1.4%
11 L Lucky Brand logo Lucky Brand - -2.8%
12 L Lilly Pulitzer logo Lilly Pulitzer ▲1 -3.4%
13 M Madewell logo Madewell ▲2 -9.1%
14 C Charlotte's - -9.3%
15 D David's Bridal logo David's Bridal ▲2 -18.8%
  • Altar'd State
  • Aritzia
  • Express
  • J.Crew
  • Palmetto Moon
  • Madewell
  • Uniquities
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

464 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Altar'd State (8)
  • Aritzia (2)
  • Express (14)
  • J.Crew (18)
  • Palmetto Moon (5)
  • Madewell (7)
  • Uniquities (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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