Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,595 stores from 1,005 retail chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Spirit Halloween grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ultimate Comics and Burlington.

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
1,005
Tracked stores
1,595
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. Spirit Halloween and Ultimate Comics sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Spirit Halloween logo Spirit Halloween ▲5 +18.9%
2 U Ultimate Comics ▲4 +17.8%
3 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲2 +17.7%
4 H Hallmark logo Hallmark ▲4 +15.5%
5 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby - +14.5%
6 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲4 +12.2%
7 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +11.1%
8 P Play It Again Sports logo Play It Again Sports ▲4 +10.2%
9 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲3 +9.8%
10 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale ▲4 +7.7%
11 C Carter's logo Carter's - +7.2%
12 H HomeGoods logo HomeGoods - +7.1%
13 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲1 +7.1%
14 J J.Crew logo J.Crew ▲3 +7.0%
15 D Dollar General logo Dollar General ▲1 +6.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,595 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

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