Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI

Iceflower tracks 354 stores from 303 retail chains in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI. Family Dollar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Goodwill and Dollar General.

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
303
Tracked stores
354
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. Family Dollar and Goodwill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Family Dollar ▲1 +10.5%
2 Goodwill ▼1 +6.9%
3 Dollar General - +0.9%
4 Walmart - +0.2%
5 Dollar Tree - -5.0%
6 Wild Bill's Tobacco - -7.4%
7 Office Depot - -13.3%
  • Discount Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Art Craft Hobby Store
  • Pet Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

354 tracked store locations in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 35 of the 354 stores (10%); 279 of the 303 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are flower shops, against 5% across Michigan.

  • Discount Store (33)
  • Specialty Store (27)
  • Sporting Goods Store (22)
  • Thrift Stores (16)
  • Art Craft Hobby Store (14)
  • Pet Store (14)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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