Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Blackburn

Iceflower tracks 187 stores from 88 grocery & convenience chains in Blackburn. Tesco grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S Simply Food 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
88
Tracked stores
187
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. Tesco and M&S Simply Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tesco logo Tesco - +3.8%
2 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲2 +3.2%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI - +1.9%
4 S SPAR - -0.4%
5 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 -3.9%
6 I Iceland ▲1 -4.4%
7 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -6.1%
8 A Asda logo Asda - -6.5%
9 L Lidl logo Lidl - -8.4%
10 P Premier ▼1 -12.5%
11 O One Stop ▼1 -14.1%
12 B Bargain Booze - -28.6%
13 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▼2 -29.3%
14 B Best-one - -34.2%

Store footprint

Store map

187 tracked store locations in Blackburn, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (95)
  • Convenience Store (66)
  • Butcher Shop (9)
  • Liquor Store (7)
  • Farmers Market (3)
  • Warehouse Club (3)
  • Food or Beverage Store (2)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Premier 18
  • 2 T Tesco logo Tesco 15
  • 3 O One Stop 12
  • 4 A ALDI logo ALDI 9
  • 5 S SPAR 9
  • 6 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 9
  • 7 L Lidl logo Lidl 6
  • 8 B Best-one 6
  • 9 I Iceland 5
  • 10 B Bargain Booze 4
  • 11 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 4
  • 12 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 4
  • 13 A Asda logo Asda 4
  • 14 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 3
  • 15 H Holland & Barrett 2
  • 16 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 2
  • 17 H Heron Foods 2
  • 18 G Go Local 2
  • 19 F Farmfoods 2
  • 20 R Ribble Valley Pizza 1
  • 21 I It's All Good 1
  • 22 R Riley's Butchers 1
  • 23 L Londis 1
  • 24 S Sharif and Sons Grocers 1
  • 25 H Hens On The Hill Ltd 1
  • 26 S Shop To Go 1
  • 27 K Kurdistan supermarket 1
  • 28 P Parkinson Convenience Store 1
  • 29 C Corner Shop 1
  • 30 S Sidco Newsagents & Convenience Store 1
  • 31 E Europa 1
  • 32 B Bargains 4u 1
  • 33 H Higher Cloughfold Store 1
  • 34 P Premier: Old Bank Lane Store 1
  • 35 J J.M. Harris Butchers 1
  • 36 A Ali Foods 1
  • 37 T The Local Stacksteads 1
  • 38 Y Your Convenience Store 1
  • 39 M Mill Hill Bridge Store 1
  • 40 S Shorrock Convenience Store 1
  • 41 B Billington Village Store 1
  • 42 T Thorougoods 1
  • 43 B Best 4 Less 1
  • 44 L Livesey Superstore 1
  • 45 P Patel's The Original Convenience Store 1
  • 46 D Deardengate Newsagents 1
  • 47 C Croft Top Equestrian Centre 1
  • 48 S Step in Convenience Store 1
  • 49 P Prime convenience store 1
  • 50 J Jesters Off Licence 1

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