Trends · data through July 2026

Convenience Stores in Belfast

Iceflower tracks 215 stores from 36 convenience stores chains in Belfast. Applegreen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of SPAR and Centra.

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
36
Tracked stores
215
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked convenience stores 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. Applegreen and SPAR sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Applegreen logo Applegreen - +5.5%
2 S SPAR - +4.1%
3 C Centra logo Centra - -4.0%
4 E Eurospar Ni - -4.9%
5 M Mace logo Mace - -6.0%
6 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local ▲1 -11.4%
7 R Russell's Food & Drink ▼1 -22.3%
8 V Vivo Essentials - -34.3%
  • SPAR
  • Centra
  • Applegreen
  • Eurospar Ni
  • Mace
  • Nisa Local
  • Russell's Food & Drink
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

215 tracked store locations in Belfast. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • SPAR (98)
  • Centra (39)
  • Applegreen (6)
  • Eurospar Ni (10)
  • Mace (14)
  • Nisa Local (6)
  • Russell's Food & Drink (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S SPAR 98
  • 2 C Centra logo Centra 39
  • 3 M Mace logo Mace 14
  • 4 E Eurospar Ni 10
  • 5 A Applegreen logo Applegreen 6
  • 6 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 6
  • 7 R Russell's Food & Drink 5
  • 8 P Premier 5
  • 9 V Vivo Essentials 3
  • 10 T Today's Local 2
  • 11 N Nearby 2
  • 12 R Reid's 1
  • 13 J Joshua's Nearby 1
  • 14 M McKees Convenience Store 1
  • 15 O Orbies 1
  • 16 T The Bullring Convenience Store 1
  • 17 D Day Today 1
  • 18 S Sheridans premier 1
  • 19 T The Corner Shop 1
  • 20 N Nearby Gloucester Avenue 1
  • 21 E Eurospar Glenavy Village 1
  • 22 M Millar's Convenience Store 1
  • 23 D DayToday 1
  • 24 F Fitzys 24hr Convenience Store 1
  • 25 T The Candy Shop 1
  • 26 M McGovern’s Convenience Store and Newsagent 1
  • 27 M McCanns Killinchy 1
  • 28 E EUROSPAR Gransha Road 1
  • 29 W Windsor Stores 1
  • 30 N Nelsons Newsagents 1
  • 31 V Vivo Anahilt 1
  • 32 T The Popular 1
  • 33 E EUROSPAR Killyleagh 1
  • 34 D DayToday Queensway 1
  • 35 E EUROSPAR Dundonald 1
  • 36 E EUROSPAR Ardglass 1

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