Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Barnsley

Iceflower tracks 720 stores from 533 retail and consumer chains in Barnsley. Sainsbury's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S Simply Food and SPAR.

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
533
Tracked stores
720
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Sainsbury's and M&S Simply Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲3 +17.8%
2 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +14.9%
3 S SPAR ▲3 +14.8%
4 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 +13.4%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI - +11.2%
6 G Greggs logo Greggs ▼1 +10.2%
7 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +9.4%
8 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲1 +6.9%
9 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲2 +0.6%
10 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local ▲2 -2.2%
11 T Tesco logo Tesco - -3.9%
12 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -4.1%
13 B Boots logo Boots ▲1 -4.3%
14 A Argos ▲1 -5.2%
15 L Lidl logo Lidl - -5.3%

Store footprint

Store map

720 tracked store locations in Barnsley, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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