Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. Quick Stop and Sharpe Shoppe sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick Stop | - | +19.0% |
| 2 | Sharpe Shoppe | ▲3 | +10.9% |
| 3 | Ole Timey Meat Market | - | +4.2% |
| 4 | Sam's Club | - | +2.1% |
| 5 | Lowes Foods | - | +1.6% |
| 6 | Food Lion | - | +1.0% |
| 7 | Gaz-Bah | - | +0.8% |
| 8 | Publix | - | +0.6% |
| 9 | The Fresh Market | - | -0.9% |
| 10 | ALDI | - | -1.5% |
| 11 | Kroger | - | -9.7% |
| 12 | KJ's Market | ▼1 | -11.4% |
| 13 | Piggly Wiggly | ▼2 | -18.2% |
- Supermarkets
- Liquor Store
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Other grocery stores
- Farm
- Food & Beverage Store
- Butcher Shop
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
396 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 65 of the 396 stores (16%); 258 of the 292 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Supermarkets (90)
- Liquor Store (86)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (82)
- Other grocery stores (35)
- Farm (16)
- Food & Beverage Store (15)
- Butcher Shop (12)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Food Lion 35
- 2 Publix 13
- 3 ALDI 7
- 4 Kroger 5
- 5 Lowes Foods 5
- 6 Gaz-Bah 4
- 7 Piggly Wiggly 4
- 8 KJ's Market 4
- 9 Ole Timey Meat Market 3
- 10 Quick Stop 3
- 11 The Fresh Market 3
- 12 Sharpe Shoppe 3
- 13 Sam's Club 3
- 14 Red Bowl Asian Bistro 2
- 15 Kwik Way Store 2
- 16 Indian Grocery Store 2
- 17 The New York Butcher Shoppe 2
- 18 Ole Timey Meats 2
- 19 Cheap Way 2
- 20 Stop N Go 2
- 21 Hardscrabble Spirits 2
- 22 Lita's Treats 2
- 23 The Honey Baked Ham Company 2
- 24 County Line Grocery 2
- 25 Edible Arrangements 2
- 26 The Root Cellar 2
- 27 Simba Express 1 2
- 28 ABC Liquor Store 2
- 29 Lake Murray Liquors 2
- 30 Mike's Liquor 2
- 31 Lidl 2
- 32 IGA 2
- 33 Earth Fare 2
- 34 King's Beverage 1
- 35 Diamond's Liquor Store 1
- 36 Corner Stop 1
- 37 Clinton Sease Farm 1
- 38 Sunny Plains Filling Station 1
- 39 Outpost Liquors 1
- 40 The Farm 1780 1
- 41 Airport Liquor 1
- 42 JK Mart 1
- 43 Sockie's Wine & Spirits 1
- 44 Senn Bros. Produce 1
- 45 Lucky 7 1
- 46 The Shrimp Guy 1
- 47 Cedar Terrace Paper Company 1
- 48 Murray Town Spirits 1
- 49 Clyde's Spirits and Fine Wines 1
- 50 Costco 1
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