Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Battle Creek, MI

Iceflower tracks 162 stores from 121 retail chains in Battle Creek, MI. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General and Dollar Tree.

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
121
Tracked stores
162
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 Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware ▲1 +7.4%
2 Dollar General - -10.2%
3 Dollar Tree - -13.2%
4 Family Dollar - -14.1%
5 Tractor Supply Co. - -15.4%
6 Goodwill ▼1 -18.9%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Thrift Stores
  • Specialty Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

162 tracked store locations in Battle Creek, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 162 stores (27%); 114 of the 121 tracked chains have a single store here. 26% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 14% across Michigan.

  • Discount Store (42)
  • Hardware Store (11)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (9)
  • Thrift Stores (8)
  • Specialty Store (8)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (7)
  • Flower Shop (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Dollar General 23
  • 2 Dollar Tree 7
  • 3 Family Dollar 7
  • 4 Tractor Supply Co. 3
  • 5 Goodwill 3
  • 6 Ace Hardware 3
  • 7 Wild Bill's Tobacco 2
  • 8 JARS CANNABIS 1
  • 9 Grandma's Toys & Treats 1
  • 10 Corona Smoke Shop 1
  • 11 Old Dog Vintage 1
  • 12 Plumeria Botanical Boutique 1
  • 13 Michigan Mercantile Co 1
  • 14 Crazy Mike's Fireworks 1
  • 15 Mike's Team Active Bikes 1
  • 16 New York Connections 1
  • 17 MeMaw's Merchandise 1
  • 18 TrailBlazers 1
  • 19 Legacy Thrift 1
  • 20 Diventures 1
  • 21 Pennfield Gardens 1
  • 22 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 1
  • 23 Marshall Hardware 1
  • 24 The Knife Cave 1
  • 25 The Right Scrubs 1
  • 26 Vape IQ 1
  • 27 Jolly Green Junction 1
  • 28 Dickerson Music Company 1
  • 29 Woods Pools Inc 1
  • 30 Shipshewana On the Road 1
  • 31 Batteries Plus Bulbs 1
  • 32 Quilts at the Marshall House 1
  • 33 Mix Hardware 1
  • 34 Urbandale Hardware Inc. 1
  • 35 New Story Community Books 1
  • 36 Airway Auto Parts & Recycling 1
  • 37 Big Lots 1
  • 38 BC Vapingape 1
  • 39 Albion College Bookstore 1
  • 40 Solitude & Co. 1
  • 41 Sweet Peas Children's Thrift Shop 1
  • 42 Thrifter's Oasis 1
  • 43 Timeless Furnishings 1
  • 44 JT Hobby 1
  • 45 The Blu Door 1
  • 46 The Plaid Herb 1
  • 47 Discount Hobby 1
  • 48 Level Park Hardware 1
  • 49 Michigan Industrial Shoe 1
  • 50 DeVine's Flowers & Botanicals 1

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