Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Belfast

Iceflower tracks 641 stores from 201 grocery & convenience chains in Belfast. ViVO grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Co-op Food and Costa Express.

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
201
Tracked stores
641
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. ViVO and Co-op Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V ViVO - +19.7%
2 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +17.6%
3 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +13.8%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +13.4%
5 E Eurospar Ni - +12.4%
6 L Lidl logo Lidl - +11.4%
7 H Hotel Chocolat logo Hotel Chocolat - +10.9%
8 M Mace - +10.8%
9 S SPAR logo SPAR - +10.3%
10 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local - +9.2%
11 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▼1 +8.2%
12 C Centra logo Centra - +3.5%
13 I Iceland logo Iceland - +2.7%
14 R Russell's Food & Drink - +1.3%
15 R Russells - +1.2%

Store footprint

Store map

641 tracked store locations in Belfast, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S SPAR logo SPAR 101
  • 2 W Winemark 56
  • 3 T Tesco logo Tesco 47
  • 4 C Centra logo Centra 41
  • 5 L Lidl logo Lidl 28
  • 6 I Iceland logo Iceland 23
  • 7 W Wineflair 23
  • 8 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 20
  • 9 M Mace 15
  • 10 V ViVO 13
  • 11 A Asda logo Asda 11
  • 12 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 11
  • 13 E Eurospar Ni 10
  • 14 C Costcutter logo Costcutter 10
  • 15 S SuperValu logo SuperValu 7
  • 16 P Premier logo Premier 6
  • 17 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 6
  • 18 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 6
  • 19 C Costa Express logo Costa Express 5
  • 20 R Russell's Food & Drink 5
  • 21 P Polita 4
  • 22 R Russells 3
  • 23 V Vivo Essentials 3
  • 24 F Fruit of the Vine 3
  • 25 H Hotel Chocolat logo Hotel Chocolat 3
  • 26 D Day-Today 2
  • 27 M McAuleys Family Butchers 2
  • 28 N Nearby 2
  • 29 T The Wine Company 2
  • 30 T Today's Local 2
  • 31 C Coffeys Butchers 1
  • 32 G Gibson's Family Butcher's 1
  • 33 O Orbies 1
  • 34 F Fayre 1
  • 35 C Clives Country Corner 1
  • 36 T The Copeland Distillery 1
  • 37 S Steven's Quality Meats 1
  • 38 G Graham's 1
  • 39 C Colin Patton & Son Traditional Greengrocer 1
  • 40 C Canteen logo Canteen 1
  • 41 K Kenny's Food Fare 1
  • 42 L Liquidline logo Liquidline 1
  • 43 W Warwicks Butchers 1
  • 44 F Fine Wines Moira 1
  • 45 T Taylors 1
  • 46 S Supershop 1
  • 47 M Millar's Convenience Store 1
  • 48 H Home Farm 1
  • 49 M Millbank Farm 1
  • 50 C Campbell's Shop 1

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