Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Columbia, MO

Iceflower tracks 181 stores from 146 retail chains in Columbia, MO. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tractor Supply Co. and Walmart.

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
146
Tracked stores
181
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. Dollar General and Tractor Supply Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +6.6%
2 Tractor Supply Co. ▲1 +6.3%
3 Walmart - +2.6%
4 Dollar Tree ▼1 +2.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Specialty Store
  • Bookstore
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Pet Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

181 tracked store locations in Columbia, MO, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 34 of the 181 stores (19%); 135 of the 146 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 3% across Missouri.

  • Discount Store (29)
  • Sporting Goods Store (11)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (9)
  • Specialty Store (8)
  • Bookstore (7)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (7)
  • Pet Store (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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