Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Flint, MI

Iceflower tracks 397 stores from 245 retail chains in Flint, MI. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble and Sherwin-Williams.

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
245
Tracked stores
397
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 Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ace Hardware ▲4 +19.6%
2 Barnes & Noble ▲2 +17.5%
3 Sherwin-Williams ▲2 +16.3%
4 Dunham's Sports ▲1 +15.3%
5 Burlington ▲1 +14.3%
6 Dollar Tree - +13.1%
7 Bath & Body Works - +5.9%
8 Smokers Palace - +2.2%
9 Pet Supplies Plus - +1.4%
10 Magoos Pet Outlet - +0.8%
11 Target - +0.6%
12 Goodwill ▼2 +0.2%
13 Dollar General - -0.2%
14 Walmart - -1.1%
15 Michaels - -3.0%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

397 tracked store locations in Flint, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 85 of the 397 stores (21%); 201 of the 245 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are flower shops, against 5% across Michigan.

  • Discount Store (81)
  • Hardware Store (23)
  • Specialty Store (23)
  • Home Improvement Center (23)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (22)
  • Sporting Goods Store (22)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (17)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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