Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC

Iceflower tracks 913 stores from 600 retail chains in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC. Books-A-Million grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Ross Dress for Less.

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
600
Tracked stores
913
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. Books-A-Million and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Books-A-Million ▲2 +19.5%
2 Dollar Tree ▲1 +15.4%
3 Ross Dress for Less - +14.9%
4 Dollar General ▲1 +13.5%
5 Tractor Supply Co. ▼1 +8.7%
6 Citi Trends ▲3 +7.8%
7 Batteries Plus Bulbs ▲1 +7.1%
8 Sherwin-Williams ▲2 +6.4%
9 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲2 +4.8%
10 Cato Fashions ▲2 +3.8%
11 Belk ▲1 +2.5%
12 Walmart - +2.0%
13 Family Dollar - +0.5%
14 Target ▼1 0.0%
15 PetSmart ▼1 -3.0%

Store footprint

Store map

913 tracked store locations in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 192 of the 913 stores (21%); 528 of the 600 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are specialty stores, against 4% across Georgia.

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