Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 880 stores from 441 retail chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Play It Again Sports grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Marshalls and Journeys.

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
441
Tracked stores
880
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Play It Again Sports and Marshalls sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Play It Again Sports logo Play It Again Sports ▲2 +18.5%
2 M Marshalls logo Marshalls - +17.1%
3 J Journeys logo Journeys ▲3 +16.3%
4 S Sherwin-Williams logo Sherwin-Williams ▲3 +14.6%
5 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲3 +13.1%
6 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲2 +13.1%
7 A Academy Sports + Outdoors logo Academy Sports + Outdoors ▲1 +12.1%
8 L Lids logo Lids ▲1 +11.6%
9 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale ▲4 +11.2%
10 P Plato's Closet logo Plato's Closet ▲1 +9.9%
11 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲1 +9.0%
12 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods - +8.5%
13 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲3 +7.7%
14 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲1 +7.4%
15 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲1 +7.4%

Store footprint

Store map

880 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

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