Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 5,481 stores from 3,121 retail and consumer chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sam's Xpress Car Wash and The UPS Store.

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
3,121
Tracked stores
5,481
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. Outback Steakhouse and Sam's Xpress Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲15 +18.6%
2 S Sam's Xpress Car Wash logo Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲12 +17.6%
3 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲9 +17.3%
4 M Marshalls logo Marshalls ▲2 +17.0%
5 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲6 +16.1%
6 C Char-Grill logo Char-Grill ▲5 +15.0%
7 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲9 +14.5%
8 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More ▲5 +14.1%
9 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲7 +13.0%
10 A Academy Sports + Outdoors logo Academy Sports + Outdoors ▲6 +11.9%
11 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲5 +10.0%
12 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲2 +9.4%
13 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲6 +8.9%
14 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▲3 +8.4%
15 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods ▲1 +8.3%

Store footprint

Store map

5,481 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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