Metro by metro
The leading electronics store chains in every South Carolina metro area
Tracked electronics store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Best Buy leads in all 5 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in South Carolina as a whole, Best Buy stands out in 2 metro areas, Batteries Plus Bulbs in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Best Buy
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Charleston, SC 0.8× · Columbia, SC 1.2×
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Batteries Plus Bulbs
Relative #1 in Greenville, SC, 1.2× its share in South Carolina
Not enough tracked stores: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Florence, SC · Hilton Head Island, SC · Spartanburg, SC · Sumter, SC
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Charlotte, NC (SC part) · Myrtle Beach, SC
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Best Buy
#1 in all 5 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Florence, SC · Hilton Head Island, SC · Spartanburg, SC · Sumter, SC
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked electronics store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to South Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in South Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in South Carolina and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of South Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in South Carolina. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked electronics store 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. Batteries Plus Bulbs and Best Buy sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Batteries Plus Bulbs | - | +8.6% |
| 2 | Best Buy | - | 0.0% |
| 3 | RadioShack | - | -17.9% |
| 4 | uBreakiFix | - | -27.5% |
- Best Buy
- Apple
- Batteries Plus Bulbs
- Zenergy Gamers
- Apple Haywood Mall
- Heroes Hideout
- RadioShack
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
134 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 48 of the 134 stores (36%); 76 of the 86 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are electronics stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Best Buy (15)
- Apple (1)
- Batteries Plus Bulbs (22)
- Zenergy Gamers (1)
- Apple Haywood Mall (1)
- Heroes Hideout (2)
- RadioShack (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Batteries Plus Bulbs 22
- 2 Best Buy 15
- 3 uBreakiFix 6
- 4 RadioShack 3
- 5 SmartPhone Medic 2
- 6 Heroes Hideout 2
- 7 HTC 2
- 8 Master Fix 2
- 9 iTech Connections 2
- 10 Smart Phone Repair 2
- 11 A&M Upstate Games 1
- 12 Garage Bagger Stereo 1
- 13 Silicon Solutions 1
- 14 The Game Garage Spartanburg 1
- 15 Healthy Phone Tech SC 1
- 16 WorldFire Games 1
- 17 Upstate Data 1
- 18 Southeast Game Exchange 1
- 19 Wudgrip 1
- 20 CompuMax 1
- 21 Cellular Repair 1
- 22 ComputerSource 1
- 23 iScreenFix 1
- 24 Wegener Media 1
- 25 Stereo Video Center 1
- 26 iFixitAll 1
- 27 Fort Mill Cellular, LLC 1
- 28 Rogers Stereo 1
- 29 School's Out Gaming Lounge 1
- 30 Hargray 1
- 31 Gamer's Dream Haven 1
- 32 Meeple Merchants 1
- 33 The Poor Gamer 1
- 34 The Dragon's Den 1
- 35 Newyorkcellphone Hudsons Flea Market 1
- 36 Eau Claire TV 1
- 37 Liquid HiFi 1
- 38 The Video Game Cavern 1
- 39 Jak's Game Exchange 1
- 40 Myrtle Beach Games 1
- 41 Wholesale Industrial Electronics 1
- 42 Harley's Electronics Inc. 1
- 43 Mystical Adventures Games 1
- 44 Firstpage 1
- 45 Cellpoint 1
- 46 Holy City Gaming 1
- 47 Wired and Wireless 1
- 48 Gamers Only 1
- 49 Palmetto Battery Pros 1
- 50 HTC - Loris 1
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