Card Shops in South Carolina

South Carolina lists 61 independent shops against 49 GameStop locations — a 45% chain share — and 13 of its 46 listed cities have no independent in them.

The independents run along the Upstate and the coast rather than clustering in the capital: Greenville (5), Rock Hill (4), Mt Pleasant (4), Myrtle Beach (4), and Columbia (3). Columbia holds 9 listings in total but only 3 independents.

Classification is 92 trading card games to 24 sports cards with 6 under both — one of the more TCG-weighted splits in the Southeast, partly because chain locations are filed under TCG throughout the directory.

Every South Carolina entry carries an address and a map link; 104 carry a phone number, 96 post hours, and 88 link to a website. 79 have a Google rating attached, which is what the ranking on each list page is built from. Stock, buy prices and event nights are not fields in this dataset, so nothing here can tell you what is in a case today. 65 of the 96 shops with a posted schedule run seven days. Spring Valley Trading Cards in Columbia (5.0 stars from 82 reviews), Critical Hits TCG in Simpsonville (5.0 stars from 76 reviews), and Healthy Phone Tech SC in Williamston (5.0 stars from 68 reviews) lead the ranking.

53 South Carolina listings are thin records kept out of search results, a high share driven by the chain side. Of the rest, 104 carry a phone number, 96 post hours and 79 a Google rating, which is the input behind the state's best-shops ranking.