Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 8,737 stores from 4,829 retail and consumer chains in Columbus, OH. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ross Dress for Less and Ollie's Bargain Outlet.

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
4,829
Tracked stores
8,737
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. Hobby Lobby and Ross Dress for Less sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲9 +19.8%
2 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less ▲9 +18.3%
3 O Ollie's Bargain Outlet logo Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲14 +16.9%
4 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲9 +16.8%
5 G Gordon Food Service Store logo Gordon Food Service Store ▲6 +15.9%
6 Y YMCA logo YMCA ▲5 +15.7%
7 M Moo Moo Express Car Wash logo Moo Moo Express Car Wash ▲6 +15.7%
8 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲9 +14.8%
9 S Strader's Garden Center ▲5 +14.6%
10 T Turkey Hill logo Turkey Hill ▲6 +14.1%
11 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club ▲1 +12.2%
12 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +11.6%
13 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲2 +11.1%
14 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲3 +10.7%
15 B Best Buy logo Best Buy ▲2 +10.2%

Store footprint

Store map

8,737 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH, colored by category group.

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