Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI

Iceflower tracks 377 stores from 286 retail chains in South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI. Goodwill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware 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
286
Tracked stores
377
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 Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Goodwill - +14.2%
2 Ace Hardware - +13.6%
3 Dollar General - +2.7%
4 Dollar Tree - -2.0%
5 Family Dollar - -10.3%
6 Walmart - -10.7%
  • Discount Store
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Specialty Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Hardware Store
  • Flower Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

377 tracked store locations in South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 68 of the 377 stores (18%); 256 of the 286 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are thrift stores, against 5% across Indiana.

  • Discount Store (65)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (19)
  • Specialty Store (16)
  • Sporting Goods Store (15)
  • Thrift Stores (13)
  • Hardware Store (13)
  • Flower Shop (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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