South Carolina Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Goodwill and Parker's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Goodwill	▲8	+19.5%
2	Parker's	▲3	+16.7%
3	Hot Spot	▲16	+15.8%
4	Spinx	▲2	+14.0%
5	Ingles Gas Express	▲12	+14.0%
6	Victoria's Secret	▲15	+13.9%
7	Murphy USA	▲2	+13.0%
8	Stop A Minit	▲6	+13.0%
9	Li'l Cricket	▲12	+12.9%
10	Hobby Lobby	▲7	+12.1%
11	Circle K	-	+11.6%
12	HomeGoods	▲4	+11.4%
13	Scotchman	▲15	+11.0%
14	Marshalls	▲7	+10.8%
15	US Foods CHEF'STORE	▲13	+9.9%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 41,427 tracked store locations in South Carolina, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,870 of the 41,427 stores (5%); 22,300 of the 24,646 tracked chains have a single store here.