Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 334 stores from 183 grocery & convenience chains in Columbia, SC. Kroger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sam's Club and Sharpe Shoppe.

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
183
Tracked stores
334
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. Kroger and Sam's Club sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kroger logo Kroger ▲1 +19.8%
2 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +14.7%
3 S Sharpe Shoppe ▲1 +14.1%
4 Q Quik Stop logo Quik Stop - +6.8%
5 O Ole Timey Meat Market - +4.4%
6 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +2.3%
7 A ALDI logo ALDI - +1.9%
8 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - -1.8%
9 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market ▼1 -3.2%
10 C Circle K logo Circle K - -5.3%
11 K KJ's Market logo KJ's Market - -6.1%
12 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly - -7.3%
13 P Publix logo Publix - -11.5%
14 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▼1 -21.6%
15 P POPS Mart - -61.4%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

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