219 listed stores across 77 cities, reviewed November 1, 2026.
We list 219 appliance stores in North Carolina, spread across 77 cities. 189 of them (86%) 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 November 1, 2026.
Counted from our own database on November 1, 2026. “Listed stores” is every active listing in North Carolina and is the denominator for every share on this page. 162 carry a working website and 219 carry a verified street-level location.
We have read the websites of 49 of the 219 North Carolina listings and recorded which brands each names. Across that subset the most frequently named are Whirlpool (32), GE (26) and Samsung (25). Whirlpool leads here where GE leads across the crawled sites nationally. This describes only the 49 crawled sites, not the whole state, and a brand appearing on a store site is not a guarantee of current stock.
31 of the 219 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 33 of the 219 North Carolina listings sell (15%), from what each store publishes about itself. The chips below the store list break that subset down. The other 186 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 26 of 219 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 219 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 191 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.
189 of 219 listings (86%) 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 219 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.
Scratch-and-dent appliance store in the Denver area, NC.
1440 NC-16 Bus
Denver, NC 28037
Scratch-and-dent appliance store in the Matthews area, NC.
0225 9609 E Independence Blvd G, Matthews, NC 28105
Appliance store in the Gastonia area, NC.
1607 Rankin Lake Rd
Gastonia, NC 28052
Outlet appliance store in the Burlington area, NC, carrying 2 tracked brands.
1788 W Webb Ave
Burlington, NC 27215
Maytag · LG
Appliance store in the Cary area, NC.
204 New Edition Ct
Cary, NC 27511
Appliance store in the Fayetteville area, NC.
3426 Bragg Blvd 36A Fayetteville, NC 28303
Appliance store in the Moyock area, NC, carrying 12 tracked brands.
578 Caratoke Hwy Moyock, NC 27958
GE · LG · Whirlpool +9
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
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
Scratch-and-dent appliance store in the Cornelius area, NC.
10847 Bailey Rd
Cornelius, NC 28031
Outlet appliance store in the Durham area, NC.
3500 N Roxboro St
Durham, NC 27704
Appliance store in the Durham area, NC.
4900 NC-55 #410
Durham, NC 27713
219 of 219 listed stores have a verified location and are plotted individually.
We have classified what 33 of 219 North Carolina stores sell. The counts below describe only those 33, and they overlap, because one store can sell more than one type. The other 186 are listed but not yet classified.
All 219 listed stores, every store type included, grouped by city.