Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in South Carolina

Iceflower tracks 7,420 stores from 3,649 retail chains in South Carolina. Columbia grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Phantom Fireworks and Gateway Supply Co..

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
3,649
Tracked stores
7,420
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Columbia and Phantom Fireworks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Columbia ▲10 +19.4%
2 P Phantom Fireworks logo Phantom Fireworks ▲11 +18.2%
3 G Gateway Supply Co. ▲8 +17.9%
4 A Altar'd State logo Altar'd State ▲13 +17.8%
5 G GDC Home logo GDC Home ▲14 +17.8%
6 D dd's DISCOUNTS logo dd's DISCOUNTS ▲10 +16.8%
7 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲6 +16.5%
8 E Express logo Express ▲13 +16.2%
9 M Money Man Pawn ▲9 +14.4%
10 B Boot Barn logo Boot Barn ▲8 +13.4%
11 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲1 +13.4%
12 R Rooms To Go logo Rooms To Go ▲8 +13.0%
13 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +12.2%
14 S Spectrum Paint Company ▲11 +11.9%
15 A Academy Sports + Outdoors logo Academy Sports + Outdoors ▲2 +11.3%

Store footprint

Store map

7,420 tracked store locations in South Carolina, colored by category.

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