Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Bedford

Iceflower tracks 663 stores from 504 retail and consumer chains in Bedford. Greggs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Swan and M&S Simply Food.

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
504
Tracked stores
663
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. Greggs and The Swan sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Greggs logo Greggs - +12.5%
2 T The Swan ▲4 +11.4%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +11.4%
4 O One Stop - +10.3%
5 T The Bell - +8.7%
6 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲1 +7.9%
7 S Specsavers - +7.3%
8 B BP logo BP - +6.3%
9 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲3 +6.1%
10 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.1%
11 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲2 +2.4%
12 K KFC logo KFC - +0.7%
13 T Tesco logo Tesco - -2.1%
14 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -2.6%
15 S Shell logo Shell - -4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

663 tracked store locations in Bedford, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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