Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Winston-Salem, NC

Iceflower tracks 4,446 stores from 3,146 retail and consumer chains in Winston-Salem, NC. Five Below grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shell and Exxon.

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
3,146
Tracked stores
4,446
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. Five Below and Shell sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲8 +18.8%
2 S Shell logo Shell ▲1 +18.3%
3 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲1 +15.9%
4 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲6 +14.6%
5 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲5 +13.1%
6 D Discount Tire logo Discount Tire ▲8 +12.2%
7 C Circle K logo Circle K - +11.4%
8 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - +10.3%
9 S Subway logo Subway ▲7 +10.3%
10 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲3 +9.6%
11 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy ▲2 +9.6%
12 D Dollar General logo Dollar General - +9.1%
13 E Elizabeth's Pizza ▲10 +9.0%
14 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲6 +8.9%
15 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲4 +8.6%

Store footprint

Store map

4,446 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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