Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbus, GA-AL

Iceflower tracks 2,544 stores from 1,925 retail and consumer chains in Columbus, GA-AL. Chevron grew fastest over the last year, ahead of AutoZone and Panda Express.

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
1,925
Tracked stores
2,544
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. Chevron and AutoZone sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chevron ▲1 +18.9%
2 AutoZone ▲2 +15.4%
3 Panda Express ▲4 +13.6%
4 GNC ▲2 +13.4%
5 Dollar Tree ▲2 +12.8%
6 Circle K - +9.4%
7 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲4 +8.1%
8 Burger King ▲1 +8.1%
9 Chick-fil-A - +7.7%
10 Starbucks ▲3 +7.5%
11 GameStop ▲4 +7.2%
12 Extra Space Storage ▲2 +6.2%
13 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +6.0%
14 Publix - +5.0%
15 Marco's Pizza ▲4 +4.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,544 tracked store locations in Columbus, GA-AL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 166 of the 2,544 stores (7%); 1,760 of the 1,925 tracked chains have a single store here.

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