223 listed stores across 79 cities, reviewed September 19, 2026.
We list 223 appliance stores in North Carolina, spread across 79 cities. 193 of them (87%) trade under a name we see nowhere else at scale, which is our working definition of an independent. Every listing is checked against Google Business Profile data; this page was last rebuilt from the database on September 19, 2026.
Counted from our own database on September 19, 2026. “Listed stores” is every active listing in North Carolina and is the denominator for every share on this page. 124 carry a working website and 223 carry a verified street-level location.
We have read the websites of 50 of the 223 North Carolina listings and recorded which brands each names. Across that subset the most frequently named are Whirlpool (33), GE (27) and Samsung (26). Whirlpool leads here where GE leads across the crawled sites nationally. This describes only the 50 crawled sites, not the whole state, and a brand appearing on a store site is not a guarantee of current stock.
31 of the 223 North Carolina listings (14%) carry 500 or more Google reviews. A review count that size takes years to accumulate, so those are the storefronts with the longest public track record in the state, whatever their founding date says.
We have classified what 34 of the 223 North Carolina listings sell (15%), from what each store publishes about itself. The chips below the store list break that subset down. The other 189 are listed but not yet classified, and a store missing from a category has not been ruled out of it.
No single North Carolina city holds much of the inventory. The largest, Charlotte, accounts for 27 of 223 listings (12%), against a median top-city share of 24% across the 51 state pages. Searching by city matters more here than in states where one metro carries the market.
We have found a founding year for 28 of the 223 North Carolina listings, and 21 of those have been trading since before 2000. The earliest is Caldwell Appliance Store in Charlotte, which dates itself to 1946. The other 195 listings publish no founding date we could find, so treat this as a floor rather than a count.
Method. Each paragraph above is computed from this database when the page is requested, not written by hand, and every figure in it can be re-derived from the listings on this page. Where a paragraph compares North Carolina against a national figure, that figure is the median across all 51 state pages rather than a pooled national total, which three large states would otherwise dominate. Nothing is claimed about the North Carolina appliance market beyond what these listings show.
193 of 223 listings (87%) are independents. The remaining 30 locations belong to 10 multi-location operators:
| Operator | In North Carolina | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Kimbrell's Furniture | 7 | 10 |
| Ollie's Bargain Outlet | 5 | 114 |
| Ferguson Home | 4 | 64 |
| Queen City Homestore | 4 | 6 |
| Mr Appliance | 3 | 81 |
| Appliances 4 Less | 2 | 23 |
| Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery | 2 | 8 |
| Appliance Center | 1 | 5 |
| Dan's Fan City | 1 | 8 |
| Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove Showroom | 1 | 7 |
Method. We hold no ownership records, so an operator counts as a chain when the same store name appears 5 or more times across our national database. That groups by name, so a chain trading under several names is undercounted and two unrelated stores sharing a common name are overcounted. It is a proxy, and we would rather publish it with its limits stated than not publish it.
12 of 223 listings, ranked by Google rating weighted by review count so a single five-star review does not outrank a long track record. Stores with no rating on file sort last.
Photo: Johnathan Drennon
Scratch-and-dent appliance store in the Denver area, NC.
1440 NC-16 Bus
Denver, NC 28037
Photo: Appliances 4 Less
Scratch-and-dent appliance store in the Matthews area, NC.
0225 9609 E Independence Blvd G, Matthews, NC 28105
Photo: Shoreline Appliances
Appliance store in the Moyock area, NC, carrying 12 tracked brands.
578 Caratoke Hwy Moyock, NC 27958
GE · LG · Whirlpool +9
Photo: Empire Liquidators LLC
Appliance store in the Gastonia area, NC.
1607 Rankin Lake Rd
Gastonia, NC 28052
Photo: MOBI CLEAN
Outlet appliance store in the Burlington area, NC, carrying 2 tracked brands.
1788 W Webb Ave
Burlington, NC 27215
Maytag · LG
Photo: Mr. Appliance of Cary
Appliance store in the Cary area, NC.
204 New Edition Ct
Cary, NC 27511
Photo: Kimbrell's Furniture
Appliance store in the Fayetteville area, NC.
3426 Bragg Blvd 36A Fayetteville, NC 28303
Photo: Appliances 4 Less Concord
Scratch-and-dent appliance and outlet appliance store in the Charlotte area, NC, carrying 9 tracked brands.
349 Copperfield Blvd NE, STE F Concord NC 28025
Whirlpool · Maytag · Frigidaire +6
Photo: TV Mount Charlotte
Used appliance, scratch-and-dent appliance, and outlet appliance store in the Charlotte area, NC, carrying 4 tracked brands.
820 Archdale Dr Concord, NC 28027
Whirlpool · Samsung · LG +1
Photo: D. W. Leppard
Appliance store in the Huntersville area, NC.
9715 A Sam Furr Rd
Huntersville, NC 28078
Photo: David Hunt
Appliance store in the Durham area, NC.
4900 NC-55 #410
Durham, NC 27713
Photo: Garner Appliance & Mattress - North Raleigh
Outlet appliance store in the Raleigh area, NC, carrying 21 tracked brands.
6103 Capital Blvd. Raleigh, NC 27616
Café · Wolf · Whirlpool +18
223 of 223 listed stores have a verified location and are plotted individually.
We have classified what 34 of 223 North Carolina stores sell. The counts below describe only those 34, and they overlap, because one store can sell more than one type. The other 189 are listed but not yet classified.
All 223 listed stores, every store type included, grouped by city.