Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Michigan City-La Porte, IN

Iceflower tracks 188 stores from 160 retail chains in Michigan City-La Porte, IN. Goodwill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar General and Walmart.

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
160
Tracked stores
188
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. Goodwill and Dollar General sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Goodwill - +14.0%
2 Dollar General - +6.7%
3 Walmart - +5.0%
4 Dollar Tree - -3.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Thrift Stores
  • Family & Value Apparel
  • Bags & Accessories
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

188 tracked store locations in Michigan City-La Porte, IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 30 of the 188 stores (16%); 152 of the 160 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 5% across Indiana.

  • Discount Store (27)
  • Hardware Store (14)
  • Specialty Store (11)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (9)
  • Thrift Stores (9)
  • Family & Value Apparel (8)
  • Bags & Accessories (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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