Trends · data through September 2026

Eye Cares in South Carolina

Iceflower tracks 191 stores from 153 eye care chains in South Carolina. Lowcountry Eye Care grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Carolina Vision Associates and Southern Eye Associates.

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
153
Tracked stores
191
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked eye care 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. Lowcountry Eye Care and Carolina Vision Associates sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Lowcountry Eye Care - +5.7%
2 Carolina Vision Associates - +5.7%
3 Southern Eye Associates - -1.9%
4 Coastal Eye Group - -14.7%
5 Triangle Visions Optometry - -78.6%
  • MyEyeDr.
  • Lowcountry Eye Care
  • North Augusta Eye Care
  • Columbia Eye Clinic
  • Ocean Eye
  • Palmetto Eye and Laser Center
  • Carolina Vision Associates
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

191 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 26 of the 191 stores (14%); 133 of the 153 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are eye cares, the same share as across the United States.

  • MyEyeDr. (11)
  • Lowcountry Eye Care (4)
  • North Augusta Eye Care (1)
  • Columbia Eye Clinic (2)
  • Ocean Eye (2)
  • Palmetto Eye and Laser Center (1)
  • Carolina Vision Associates (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 MyEyeDr. 11
  • 2 Lowcountry Eye Care 4
  • 3 Carolina Vision Associates 4
  • 4 Retina Consultants 4
  • 5 Triangle Visions Optometry 3
  • 6 Coastal Eye Group 3
  • 7 Southern Eye Associates 3
  • 8 Aiken Ophthalmology 2
  • 9 Rock Hill Eye Center 2
  • 10 Voss Vision 2
  • 11 Darling Eye Center 2
  • 12 Family Vision 2
  • 13 H Rubin Vision Center 2
  • 14 Martinez Eye Associates 2
  • 15 Beaufort Eye Center 2
  • 16 Eye Care Center 2
  • 17 Sansbury Eye Center 2
  • 18 Ocean Eye 2
  • 19 Columbia Eye Clinic 2
  • 20 Coastal Vision 2
  • 21 Blue Rose Eye Care 1
  • 22 Carolina Cornea & Laser Center 1
  • 23 Conway Ophthalmology Associates 1
  • 24 Camden Eye Care Center 1
  • 25 Wilson Family Vision 1
  • 26 Visionary Eye Center 1
  • 27 Palmetto Retina Center 1
  • 28 Infinity Eye Care 1
  • 29 Carolina Eye Care and Associates, PA 1
  • 30 Orangeburg Family Eye Care 1
  • 31 Jones Family Eyecare 1
  • 32 Eyecare of Florence 1
  • 33 Crockett Eyes 1
  • 34 OneWay Eyeglasses 1
  • 35 Clemson Eye Greenville 1
  • 36 Eyes On Henry 1
  • 37 Sumter Eye Center 1
  • 38 Eye Associates of Little River 1
  • 39 Family Eyecare Center 1
  • 40 The Vision Centers - Dr. Gary A. Bodofsky, OD 1
  • 41 Carolina Eye Center, Walt Bogart, M.D. 1
  • 42 Coastal Eye Care 1
  • 43 Vision Plus 1
  • 44 Greenville Vision LLC 1
  • 45 McKenzie Eye Care 1
  • 46 All Eyes Vision Care 1
  • 47 Sea Island Ophthalmology 1
  • 48 Lake Wylie Eye 1
  • 49 Desautels Family Eye Care 1
  • 50 Grand Strand Retina & Eye Physicians 1

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