Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 893 stores from 712 retail chains in Wilmington, NC. Spectrum Paint Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hobby Lobby 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
712
Tracked stores
893
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. Spectrum Paint Company and Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Spectrum Paint Company ▲1 +19.4%
2 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +11.1%
3 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +7.1%
4 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - +7.1%
5 M Marshalls logo Marshalls - +3.7%
6 P Pet Supplies Plus logo Pet Supplies Plus - +3.7%
7 P PetSmart logo PetSmart - +0.6%
8 W Walmart logo Walmart - -0.0%
9 L Lowe's Home Improvement logo Lowe's Home Improvement - -1.0%
10 R Rack Room Shoes logo Rack Room Shoes - -1.1%
11 B Belk logo Belk - -1.4%
12 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▼1 -2.0%
13 S Staples logo Staples - -2.3%
14 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - -2.3%
15 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - -2.5%

Store footprint

Store map

893 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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