Traverse City, MI Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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 Biggby Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Dollar General	▲2	+11.2%
2	Biggby Coffee	▲2	+7.9%
3	Shell	-	+5.8%
4	Dollar Tree	▲1	+3.3%
5	Ace Hardware	▲1	+1.1%
6	Advance Auto Parts	▼1	+1.0%
7	4Front Credit Union	-	-0.1%
8	Starbucks	▼1	-0.1%
9	Save A Lot	▲3	-0.6%
10	Speedway	-	-1.5%
11	Family Fare	-	-2.9%
12	Momentum	-	-3.3%
13	Exxon	▼1	-3.6%
14	Walgreens	-	-3.7%
15	Burger King	-	-5.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,674 tracked store locations in Traverse City, MI, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 70 of the 1,674 stores (4%); 1,377 of the 1,464 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked stores here are in leisure & travel, against 6% across Michigan.