Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbus, GA-AL

Iceflower tracks 2,523 stores from 1,924 retail and consumer chains in Columbus, GA-AL. Chevron grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GNC and Panda Express.

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
1,924
Tracked stores
2,523
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. Chevron and GNC sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chevron logo Chevron ▲1 +19.4%
2 G GNC logo GNC ▲2 +14.7%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲5 +14.1%
4 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲1 +13.8%
5 C Circle K logo Circle K ▲1 +10.1%
6 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲4 +9.4%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +8.4%
8 G GameStop logo GameStop ▲5 +8.3%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +8.3%
10 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲3 +8.2%
11 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage ▲2 +7.5%
12 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx - +6.7%
13 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +6.1%
14 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +5.9%
15 P Publix logo Publix ▼1 +5.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,523 tracked store locations in Columbus, GA-AL, colored by category group.

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