Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Michigan

Iceflower tracks 11,993 stores from 6,221 retail chains in Michigan. Boot Barn grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Carter Lumber and Carhartt.

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
6,221
Tracked stores
11,993
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. Boot Barn and Carter Lumber sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Boot Barn ▲13 +19.7%
2 Carter Lumber ▲14 +18.3%
3 Carhartt ▲9 +17.9%
4 Pro Fireworks ▲8 +16.8%
5 Sweet Fire Tobacco ▲9 +15.0%
6 Galactic Toys & Games ▲4 +14.4%
7 Gap ▲6 +14.0%
8 Gardner White Furniture ▲9 +13.6%
9 Watson's ▲13 +12.9%
10 Altar'd State ▲8 +12.8%
11 Hallmark ▲14 +12.4%
12 SKECHERS ▲7 +12.3%
13 Premier Pet Supply ▲4 +12.2%
14 Wild Bill's Tobacco ▲1 +12.1%
15 Wild Side Smoke Shop ▲11 +11.5%

Store footprint

Store map

11,993 tracked store locations in Michigan, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,711 of the 11,993 stores (14%); 5,637 of the 6,221 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.

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