Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

Iceflower tracks 4,510 stores from 2,460 retail chains in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. BoxLunch grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Vapor Shoppe and Gap.

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
2,460
Tracked stores
4,510
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. BoxLunch and The Vapor Shoppe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 BoxLunch ▲10 +19.3%
2 The Vapor Shoppe ▲12 +18.5%
3 Gap ▲9 +17.3%
4 Gardner White Furniture ▲5 +17.0%
5 B&R Sports ▲6 +15.8%
6 Five Below ▲5 +15.7%
7 Pro Fireworks ▲12 +14.8%
8 Wild Bill's Tobacco ▲1 +14.4%
9 DTLR ▲11 +13.6%
10 Premier Pet Supply ▲3 +12.6%
11 Hallmark ▲10 +12.3%
12 Hot Topic ▲9 +11.7%
13 Petco ▲4 +11.5%
14 Zales ▲4 +11.3%
15 Burlington ▲2 +11.1%

Store footprint

Store map

4,510 tracked store locations in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 493 of the 4,510 stores (11%); 2,139 of the 2,460 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 5% across Michigan.

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