Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Ann Arbor, MI

Iceflower tracks 2,738 stores from 2,220 retail and consumer chains in Ann Arbor, MI. AutoZone grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble and HomeGoods.

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
2,220
Tracked stores
2,738
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. AutoZone and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 AutoZone ▲8 +18.3%
2 Barnes & Noble ▲5 +13.3%
3 HomeGoods ▲2 +12.4%
4 Cottage Inn Pizza ▲1 +10.2%
5 Citgo ▲2 +10.2%
6 Sunoco ▲2 +8.9%
7 Victory Lane Quick Oil Change ▲3 +8.4%
8 Tim Hortons ▲3 +8.3%
9 Burger King ▲4 +7.9%
10 Dollar Tree ▲5 +7.8%
11 Meijer - +7.1%
12 Dollar General ▲4 +5.5%
13 University of Michigan Credit Union - +4.4%
14 Tractor Supply Co. ▲1 +3.9%
15 Panera Bread ▲1 +3.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,738 tracked store locations in Ann Arbor, MI, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 92 of the 2,738 stores (3%); 2,042 of the 2,220 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked stores here are in gas & auto, against 12% across Michigan.

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