Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 393 stores from 293 grocery & convenience chains in Columbia, SC. Sharpe Shoppe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ole Timey Meat Market and Sam's Club.

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
293
Tracked stores
393
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. Sharpe Shoppe and Ole Timey Meat Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sharpe Shoppe ▲2 +12.4%
2 O Ole Timey Meat Market - +4.5%
3 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +3.0%
4 K KJ's Market logo KJ's Market - +1.8%
5 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods - +1.5%
6 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +1.0%
7 P Publix logo Publix - -0.4%
8 A ALDI logo ALDI - -2.1%
9 K Kroger logo Kroger - -9.8%
10 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly ▼2 -17.6%
11 E Edible Arrangements logo Edible Arrangements - -21.6%

Store footprint

Store map

393 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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