Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Ann Arbor, MI

Iceflower tracks 203 stores from 183 grocery & convenience chains in Ann Arbor, MI. Meijer grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kroger and ALDI.

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
183
Tracked stores
203
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. Meijer and Kroger sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Meijer - +3.2%
2 Kroger - -0.8%
3 ALDI - -4.5%
4 Busch's Fresh Food Market - -6.2%
  • Liquor Store
  • Other grocery stores
  • Supermarkets
  • Farm
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Farmers Market
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

203 tracked store locations in Ann Arbor, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 21 of the 203 stores (10%); 174 of the 183 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 5% across Michigan.

  • Liquor Store (41)
  • Other grocery stores (40)
  • Supermarkets (32)
  • Farm (25)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (18)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (9)
  • Farmers Market (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Kroger 8
  • 2 Meijer 4
  • 3 Busch's Fresh Food Market 4
  • 4 ALDI 3
  • 5 People's Food Co-op 2
  • 6 Plum Market 2
  • 7 Whole Foods Market 2
  • 8 Dairy Mart 2
  • 9 Save A Lot 2
  • 10 Whitmore Lake Farmers Market 1
  • 11 Zingerman's Creamery 1
  • 12 Sahara Market 1
  • 13 Revel Run 1
  • 14 Jenny's Farm Market 1
  • 15 Coleman's Farm 1
  • 16 Hyundai Asian Market 1
  • 17 Gateway Farm 1
  • 18 Night Star Market 1
  • 19 Green Things Farm 1
  • 20 Hamel's Euro Market 1
  • 21 Everyday Wines 1
  • 22 Highline Spirits 1
  • 23 Aladdin's Market 1
  • 24 Grove Mini Mart 1
  • 25 Main Street Provisions 1
  • 26 Mira International Market 1
  • 27 Joe Hall Quick Stop 1
  • 28 Sheats Produce 1
  • 29 Kasoa Africa Market 1
  • 30 Sunflower Farm Market 1
  • 31 Campus Corner Market 1
  • 32 Ypsi Fuel Mart 1
  • 33 River Raisin Distillery 1
  • 34 Edith's Market 1
  • 35 KAS Deer Processing 1
  • 36 Willow Run Party Store 1
  • 37 Fusilier Farms 1
  • 38 Spice Merchants 1
  • 39 Withington's 1
  • 40 Water Tower Distilling Co. 1
  • 41 Sunny Oil 1
  • 42 State Petro 1
  • 43 Dos Hermanos Market 1
  • 44 Hua Xing Asia Market 1
  • 45 Spring Valley Trout Farm 1
  • 46 Portage Lake Trading Post 1
  • 47 Urquhart's Tree Farm 1
  • 48 Washtenaw Oil 1
  • 49 Village Corner 1
  • 50 Prospect Party Store 1

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