Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Sumter, SC

Iceflower tracks 640 stores from 510 retail and consumer chains in Sumter, SC. Shell grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Circle K and Ace Hardware.

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
510
Tracked stores
640
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Shell and Circle K sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Shell ▲1 +17.5%
2 Circle K - +16.5%
3 Ace Hardware - +13.2%
4 Family Dollar ▲1 +12.1%
5 Advance Auto Parts - +8.8%
6 Taco Bell - +7.9%
7 Exxon ▲1 +6.2%
8 Dollar General - +4.5%
9 Burger King ▲1 +3.8%
10 McDonald's - +3.6%
11 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲1 +1.9%
12 Dollar Tree ▲1 +1.1%
13 Food Lion - -0.9%
14 Walmart - -1.5%
15 Subway - -3.5%

Store footprint

Store map

640 tracked store locations in Sumter, SC, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 58 of the 640 stores (9%); 460 of the 510 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 12% across South Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

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