Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 6,271 stores from 4,151 retail and consumer chains in Columbia, SC. T-Mobile grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and University of South Carolina.

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: 4,151
Tracked stores: 6,271
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. T-Mobile and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	T T-Mobile	▲13	+19.4%
2	D Dollar Tree	▲3	+18.7%
3	U University of South Carolina	▲6	+18.4%
4	7 7-Eleven	▲6	+16.3%
5	P Panda Express	▲11	+16.0%
6	S Subway	▲6	+15.8%
7	S Sharpe Shoppe	▲3	+14.7%
8	R Roses	▲1	+14.3%
9	S Sunoco	▲8	+13.9%
10	M Murphy USA	▲2	+13.6%
11	E Exxon	▲4	+12.6%
12	B Burger King	▲5	+12.0%
13	M Midas	▲7	+11.9%
14	S Shell	▲2	+11.1%
15	H Hobby Lobby	▲4	+9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

6,271 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category group.

Food & Drink (1,772)
Retail (1,142)
Health & Beauty (1,121)
Other (779)
Gas & Auto (761)
Grocery & Convenience (393)
Leisure & Travel (293)
Insurance (10)

Top tracked chains by store count

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