Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Niles, MI

Iceflower tracks 230 stores from 172 retail chains in Niles, MI. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dollar Tree and Ace Hardware.

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
172
Tracked stores
230
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. Dollar General and Dollar Tree sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General - +5.7%
2 Dollar Tree ▲1 -3.3%
3 Ace Hardware ▼1 -7.4%
4 Family Dollar - -19.8%
5 Big C Lumber - -31.8%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Specialty Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

230 tracked store locations in Niles, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 45 of the 230 stores (20%); 150 of the 172 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked retail stores here are women's contemporary, against 3% across Michigan.

  • Discount Store (45)
  • Hardware Store (18)
  • Flower Shop (15)
  • Specialty Store (15)
  • Thrift Stores (14)
  • Sporting Goods Store (14)
  • Women's Contemporary (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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