Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Traverse City, MI

Iceflower tracks 131 stores from 115 grocery & convenience chains in Traverse City, MI. Save A Lot grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Family Fare and Tom's Food Market.

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
115
Tracked stores
131
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. Save A Lot and Family Fare sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Save A Lot - -2.7%
2 Family Fare - -5.0%
3 Tom's Food Market - -8.7%
4 Grand Traverse Distillery - -22.3%
  • Other grocery stores
  • Supermarkets
  • Farm
  • Liquor Store
  • Food & Beverage Store
  • Farmers Market
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

131 tracked store locations in Traverse City, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 18 of the 131 stores (14%); 107 of the 115 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are food & beverage stores, against 3% across Michigan.

  • Other grocery stores (24)
  • Supermarkets (24)
  • Farm (16)
  • Liquor Store (13)
  • Food & Beverage Store (13)
  • Farmers Market (9)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Family Fare 5
  • 2 Save A Lot 4
  • 3 Tom's Food Market 4
  • 4 Grand Traverse Distillery 3
  • 5 Meijer 2
  • 6 Cherry Republic 2
  • 7 Northern Latitudes Distillery 2
  • 8 Mi Local Hops 2
  • 9 Holiday Shopper 1
  • 10 Furnace Street Distillery 1
  • 11 Up North Emu 1
  • 12 Crossroads Farm 1
  • 13 Myrtle & Maude's 1
  • 14 Starvation Lake General Store 1
  • 15 Bardenhagen Berries Farm 1
  • 16 Lively NeighborFood Market 1
  • 17 Courtade's Trading Center 1
  • 18 Gallagher's Centennial Farm 1
  • 19 Murray's Fruit Farm 1
  • 20 De Vor Dairy Farm & Creamery 1
  • 21 Tandem Ciders 1
  • 22 Deering's Market & Deli 1
  • 23 Lake District Wine Co. 1
  • 24 MI Market Suttons Bay 1
  • 25 Pop-Kies 1
  • 26 Hubbell Farms 1
  • 27 Groleau's Farm Market 1
  • 28 Leelanau Cheese 1
  • 29 Old Mission Distilling 1
  • 30 Bear Paw Pizza & Market 1
  • 31 Torch River Shack 1
  • 32 East Lake General Store 1
  • 33 Peninsula Provisions 1
  • 34 Cherry Bend Grocery 1
  • 35 Bunting's Market 1
  • 36 Archer Country Store 1
  • 37 Mangio Fresco 1
  • 38 Gallagher Farms 1
  • 39 Cherry Connection 1
  • 40 M C Short Stop 1
  • 41 Sweet Frond Farm 1
  • 42 Coast Guard Exchange 1
  • 43 Manitou & Co. 1
  • 44 Rich 1
  • 45 Fustini's Oils & Vinegars 1
  • 46 Elderberry Farms Estate 1
  • 47 Second Spring Farm 1
  • 48 Earth's Garden Natural Foods 1
  • 49 HNM Wellness & Gifts 1
  • 50 Rennie Orchards 1

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