Charleston, SC Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Parker's and lululemon sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Parker's	▲3	+19.5%
2	lululemon	▲13	+18.3%
3	Marshalls	▲3	+16.3%
4	Five Below	▲8	+16.1%
5	Spinx	▲1	+14.3%
6	Lowes Foods	▲3	+14.3%
7	Money Man Pawn	▲10	+13.3%
8	Circle K	-	+11.7%
9	Ross Dress for Less	▲1	+11.6%
10	Michaels	▲10	+11.0%
11	Chipotle Mexican Grill	▲6	+10.9%
12	Firehouse Subs	▲10	+9.8%
13	Murphy USA	-	+9.8%
14	Publix	-	+9.5%
15	Extra Space Storage	▲5	+9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

7,481 tracked store locations in Charleston-North Charleston, SC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 226 of the 7,481 stores (3%); 4,697 of the 5,339 tracked chains have a single store here.