Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 2,446 stores from 1,728 retail and consumer chains in Wilmington, NC. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tractor Supply Co. and Dollar General.

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
1,728
Tracked stores
2,446
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. Hobby Lobby and Tractor Supply Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲8 +17.9%
2 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲2 +16.1%
3 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +13.3%
4 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement ▲1 +12.6%
5 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲5 +11.5%
6 P P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille logo P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille ▲6 +9.6%
7 E Eggs Up Grill logo Eggs Up Grill ▲4 +9.2%
8 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲6 +8.9%
9 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲4 +8.0%
10 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy ▲1 +6.9%
11 M Marshalls logo Marshalls ▲4 +6.6%
12 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲2 +5.2%
13 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +5.0%
14 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +5.0%
15 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

2,446 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC, colored by category group.

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