Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Traverse City, MI

Iceflower tracks 348 stores from 303 retail chains in Traverse City, MI. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Haystacks and Dollar Tree.

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
303
Tracked stores
348
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 Haystacks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General ▲1 +13.4%
2 Haystacks - +10.1%
3 Dollar Tree - +5.4%
4 Ace Hardware - +3.2%
5 Momentum - -1.3%
6 Bay Wear - -3.0%
7 Tractor Supply Co. ▼1 -6.5%
8 Family Dollar - -15.9%
  • Flower Shop
  • Discount Store
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Women's Contemporary
  • Specialty Store
  • Thrift Stores
  • Other clothing stores
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

348 tracked store locations in Traverse City, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 348 stores (9%); 283 of the 303 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked retail stores here are women's contemporary, against 3% across Michigan.

  • Flower Shop (32)
  • Discount Store (27)
  • Sporting Goods Store (27)
  • Women's Contemporary (24)
  • Specialty Store (23)
  • Thrift Stores (20)
  • Other clothing stores (18)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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