Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Bedford

Iceflower tracks 170 stores from 97 grocery & convenience chains in Bedford. Premier grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costa Express and ALDI.

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
97
Tracked stores
170
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. Premier and Costa Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Premier logo Premier ▲3 +17.0%
2 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +14.3%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +10.6%
4 O One Stop logo One Stop - +3.8%
5 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +3.6%
6 M McColl's logo McColl's - +1.6%
7 C Costcutter logo Costcutter - +1.4%
8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +0.5%
9 T Tesco logo Tesco - -2.9%
10 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - -5.1%
11 L Londis logo Londis ▼1 -7.4%
12 B Budgens logo Budgens ▼2 -14.8%
13 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 -43.4%

Store footprint

Store map

170 tracked store locations in Bedford, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (47)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (43)
  • Other grocery stores (39)
  • Discount Grocers (13)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (9)
  • Butcher Shop (7)
  • Liquor Store (4)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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