Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC

Iceflower tracks 434 stores from 355 retail chains in Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC. Dollar Tree grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Dollar General.

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
355
Tracked stores
434
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. Dollar Tree and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar Tree - +11.9%
2 Ace Hardware ▲1 +10.5%
3 Dollar General - +8.4%
4 T.J.Maxx - +6.8%
5 PetSmart - +1.9%
6 TALBOTS ▲2 +1.5%
7 Staples ▼1 -2.5%
8 Walmart - -4.4%
9 Family Dollar - -7.0%
10 Sherwin-Williams - -17.8%
11 West Marine - -17.8%
12 Spartina 449 ▼2 -76.5%

Store footprint

Store map

434 tracked store locations in Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 35 of the 434 stores (8%); 316 of the 355 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 19% across South Carolina.

  • Flower Shop (32)
  • Sporting Goods Store (31)
  • Discount Store (30)
  • Thrift Stores (26)
  • Women's Contemporary (26)
  • Hardware Store (19)
  • Specialty Store (19)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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