Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every South Carolina metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Lowe's Home Improvement leads in all 8 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in South Carolina as a whole, Lowe's Home Improvement stands out in 4 metro areas, The Home Depot in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Lowe's Home Improvement
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Charleston, SC 1× · Columbia, SC 1× · Charlotte, NC (SC part) 1.1× · Spartanburg, SC 1×
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Greenville, SC 1.4× · Myrtle Beach, SC 1.3×
Not enough tracked stores: Florence, SC · Sumter, SC
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Hilton Head Island, SC
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Lowe's Home Improvement
#1 in all 8 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Florence, SC · Sumter, SC
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center 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 home improvement center 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. Spectrum Paint Company and Fishman Flooring Solutions sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spectrum Paint Company | ▲1 | +16.8% |
| 2 | Fishman Flooring Solutions | ▲1 | +16.6% |
| 3 | Sherwin-Williams | - | +2.4% |
| 4 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | ▲1 | +2.0% |
| 5 | PPG Paints | ▲1 | +1.5% |
| 6 | The Home Depot | - | +1.1% |
| 7 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | +0.5% |
| 8 | Home Outlet | ▲1 | -11.8% |
| 9 | Daltile | - | -13.5% |
| 10 | LL Flooring | - | -35.5% |
| 11 | Carter Lumber | ▼3 | -55.2% |
| 12 | GBS Building Supply | ▼2 | -100.0% |
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- The Home Depot
- Sherwin-Williams
- Floor & Decor
- Maner Builders Supply
- Oswald Wholesale Lumber Inc
- Spectrum Paint Company
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
290 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 155 of the 290 stores (53%); 90 of the 111 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, the same share as across the United States.
- Lowe's Home Improvement (53)
- The Home Depot (27)
- Sherwin-Williams (54)
- Floor & Decor (2)
- Maner Builders Supply (1)
- Oswald Wholesale Lumber Inc (1)
- Spectrum Paint Company (13)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Sherwin-Williams 54
- 2 Lowe's Home Improvement 53
- 3 The Home Depot 27
- 4 Spectrum Paint Company 13
- 5 Leslie's Pool Supplies 8
- 6 PPG Paints 5
- 7 Daltile 5
- 8 LL Flooring 4
- 9 Fishman Flooring Solutions 4
- 10 GBS Building Supply 3
- 11 Home Outlet 3
- 12 Carter Lumber 3
- 13 Floor & Decor 2
- 14 Tile Center 2
- 15 Capitol Materials Coastal 2
- 16 The Tile Shop 2
- 17 Palmetto Brick Company 2
- 18 Myrtle Beach Building Supply 2
- 19 Clayton Tile 2
- 20 The Building Center 2
- 21 Stroud Supply 2
- 22 Hamm Hardware & Building Supplies 1
- 23 Bivens Hardware Co 1
- 24 Rustic Roots Warehouse 1
- 25 Orian Rugs Factory Outlet 1
- 26 Buck Stove, Pool and Spa 1
- 27 Melcer Tile 1
- 28 Dixie Rubber & Plastics 1
- 29 Coastal Curbing 1
- 30 Palmetto Tile Distributors 1
- 31 Flooring & Granite Outlet 1
- 32 Ivy Lanes Nursery And Landscape 1
- 33 Jordan Lumber Company 1
- 34 Michael's Flooring & Cabinets 1
- 35 Wholesale Carpet 1
- 36 Snead Builders and Carpet One 1
- 37 Victory Metal Roofing & Supply, LLC 1
- 38 TRD Floor Supplies 1
- 39 Dillon Wood Works 1
- 40 Corbett Building Supply 1
- 41 Best Buy Metals Greenville 1
- 42 Standard Wholesale Lumber 1
- 43 Feed and Farm Store 1
- 44 Susan Fedor Designs 1
- 45 PerfecTech 1
- 46 Concrete Supply Co. 1
- 47 C L Cannon & Sons 1
- 48 Corbin Turf & Ornamental Supply, Inc. 1
- 49 Liquid Munn-E 1
- 50 Designs By Nature 1
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