Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Columbus, IN

Iceflower tracks 1,093 stores from 940 retail and consumer chains in Columbus, IN. Marathon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Goodwill and Extra Space Storage.

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
940
Tracked stores
1,093
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. Marathon and Goodwill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Marathon ▲2 +17.7%
2 Goodwill ▲1 +12.7%
3 Extra Space Storage - +11.0%
4 Dollar Tree - +9.0%
5 Arby's - +6.1%
6 Bath & Body Works - +5.5%
7 Starbucks - +3.8%
8 Burger King - +3.4%
9 Dollar General - +0.8%
10 CVS Pharmacy - -1.2%
11 Cork Liquors - -1.4%
12 United States Postal Service ▲1 -1.5%
13 Dairy Queen - -2.8%
14 Great Clips ▲1 -3.2%
15 Taco Bell ▼1 -4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,093 tracked store locations in Columbus, IN, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 49 of the 1,093 stores (4%); 864 of the 940 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 5% across Indiana.

Top tracked chains by store count

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