Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 2,607 stores from 1,483 retail chains in Columbus, OH. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Coach and Foot Locker.

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
1,483
Tracked stores
2,607
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. Ace Hardware and Coach sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware ▲7 +19.7%
2 Coach ▲7 +19.7%
3 Foot Locker ▲2 +16.9%
4 Famous Supply ▲9 +15.7%
5 Burlington ▲1 +14.8%
6 The Original Mattress Factory ▲11 +14.6%
7 Hot Topic ▲10 +14.1%
8 Best Buy ▲1 +13.9%
9 Ross Dress for Less ▲2 +12.4%
10 Kay Jewelers ▲6 +12.0%
11 Five Below ▲4 +11.9%
12 Harbor Freight Tools ▲2 +11.9%
13 Michaels ▲2 +11.7%
14 Trek Bicycle ▲9 +11.3%
15 Barnes & Noble ▲3 +10.0%

Store footprint

Store map

2,607 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 292 of the 2,607 stores (11%); 1,221 of the 1,483 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 15% across Ohio.

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