Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 17,168 stores from 11,596 retail and consumer chains in Columbus, OH. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

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
11,596
Tracked stores
17,168
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 Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲13 +19.5%
2 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲23 +19.2%
3 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲9 +17.5%
4 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲17 +17.2%
5 F Foot Locker logo Foot Locker ▲8 +13.4%
6 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲5 +12.7%
7 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club ▲7 +12.7%
8 M MedVet logo MedVet ▲7 +11.6%
9 S Sheetz logo Sheetz ▲2 +11.5%
10 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲7 +11.4%
11 N Northstar Cafe logo Northstar Cafe ▲11 +11.2%
12 M Moo Moo Express Car Wash logo Moo Moo Express Car Wash ▲8 +10.6%
13 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲7 +10.3%
14 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA ▲9 +10.2%
15 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲6 +9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

17,168 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH, colored by category group.

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