Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 3,061 stores from 1,658 retail and consumer chains in Columbia, SC. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Vitamin Shoppe and AutoZone.

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
1,658
Tracked stores
3,061
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. Outback Steakhouse and The Vitamin Shoppe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲12 +19.7%
2 T The Vitamin Shoppe logo The Vitamin Shoppe ▲4 +19.6%
3 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲12 +18.0%
4 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲7 +17.7%
5 K Kroger logo Kroger ▲1 +16.5%
6 M Marshalls logo Marshalls ▲9 +15.8%
7 P Posh Nail Spa ▲7 +15.6%
8 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲3 +13.9%
9 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲9 +13.8%
10 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲4 +13.0%
11 S Sharpe Shoppe ▲6 +11.5%
12 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲9 +11.2%
13 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +10.2%
14 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲2 +9.6%
15 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲5 +8.3%

Store footprint

Store map

3,061 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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