Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Belfast

Iceflower tracks 594 stores from 162 grocery & convenience chains in Belfast. Applegreen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lidl 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
162
Tracked stores
594
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. Applegreen and Lidl sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Applegreen logo Applegreen ▲1 +13.3%
2 L Lidl logo Lidl ▲1 +12.4%
3 S SPAR - +11.8%
4 R Russells - +7.7%
5 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +3.6%
6 C Centra logo Centra - +3.1%
7 E Eurospar Ni - +2.1%
8 M Mace logo Mace - +1.0%
9 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▼1 -1.4%
10 T Tesco logo Tesco - -2.1%
11 C Costcutter - -3.0%
12 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local ▲1 -4.9%
13 I Iceland - -10.3%
14 W Winemark - -10.8%
15 W Wineflair - -10.9%

Store footprint

Store map

594 tracked store locations in Belfast, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S SPAR 98
  • 2 W Winemark 53
  • 3 T Tesco logo Tesco 47
  • 4 C Centra logo Centra 39
  • 5 L Lidl logo Lidl 28
  • 6 W Wineflair 23
  • 7 I Iceland 22
  • 8 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 20
  • 9 M Mace logo Mace 14
  • 10 V ViVO 12
  • 11 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 11
  • 12 A Asda logo Asda 11
  • 13 E Eurospar Ni 10
  • 14 C Costcutter 10
  • 15 H Holland & Barrett 8
  • 16 S SuperValu 7
  • 17 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 6
  • 18 A Applegreen logo Applegreen 6
  • 19 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 6
  • 20 P Premier 5
  • 21 R Russell's Food & Drink 5
  • 22 P Polita 3
  • 23 V Vivo Essentials 3
  • 24 R Russells 3
  • 25 S Spar 2
  • 26 T The Wine Company 2
  • 27 T Today's Local 2
  • 28 D Day-Today 2
  • 29 F Fruit of the Vine 2
  • 30 N Nearby 2
  • 31 T The Candy Shop 1
  • 32 T Today's Express - Bickys 1
  • 33 F Fitzys 24hr Convenience Store 1
  • 34 E Evans Farm Shop 1
  • 35 T The Wee Shop 1
  • 36 E E Kou Xian 1
  • 37 T Titanic Distillers 1
  • 38 T The Creamery 1
  • 39 D DayToday 1
  • 40 O Orr's Family Butchers 1
  • 41 M Millar's Convenience Store 1
  • 42 N Nearby Gloucester Avenue 1
  • 43 M McAuleys Family Butchers 1
  • 44 C Coffeys Butchers 1
  • 45 M Murphy's Stores (VIVO Essentials) 1
  • 46 H Hanlon's 1
  • 47 H Hops n Vines 1
  • 48 W Watt's Butchers 1
  • 49 T Today's Express 1
  • 50 A AC Meats 1

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