Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI

Iceflower tracks 718 stores from 387 retail chains in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI. Uptown Cheapskate grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble and Galactic Toys & Games.

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
387
Tracked stores
718
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. Uptown Cheapskate and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 U Uptown Cheapskate logo Uptown Cheapskate ▲3 +18.4%
2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲4 +18.2%
3 G Galactic Toys & Games logo Galactic Toys & Games ▲4 +16.8%
4 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▲3 +14.4%
5 S Sweet Fire Tobacco logo Sweet Fire Tobacco - +13.5%
6 T T-Mobile logo T-Mobile ▲1 +13.4%
7 F Francesca's logo Francesca's - +13.2%
8 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +11.6%
9 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. ▲3 +11.5%
10 W Wild Bill's Tobacco logo Wild Bill's Tobacco ▲2 +10.9%
11 T T.J.Maxx logo T.J.Maxx ▲2 +10.2%
12 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲3 +10.1%
13 K Kohl's logo Kohl's ▲1 +9.7%
14 M Menards logo Menards - +9.4%
15 O Old Navy logo Old Navy ▲1 +8.8%

Store footprint

Store map

718 tracked store locations in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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