Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Sumter, SC

Iceflower tracks 130 stores from 90 retail chains in Sumter, SC. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Family Dollar and Dollar General.

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
90
Tracked stores
130
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Ace Hardware and Family Dollar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware - +14.5%
2 Family Dollar - +13.4%
3 Dollar General - +5.7%
4 Dollar Tree - +2.3%
5 Walmart - -0.3%
  • Discount Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Hardware Store
  • Furniture Store
  • Family & Value Apparel
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Flower Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

130 tracked store locations in Sumter, SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 44 of the 130 stores (34%); 84 of the 90 tracked chains have a single store here. 33% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 19% across South Carolina.

  • Discount Store (43)
  • Thrift Stores (7)
  • Hardware Store (7)
  • Furniture Store (6)
  • Family & Value Apparel (6)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (5)
  • Flower Shop (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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