Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Blackburn

Iceflower tracks 212 stores from 171 retail chains in Blackburn. Screwfix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Home Bargains and WHSmith.

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
171
Tracked stores
212
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Screwfix and Home Bargains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲1 +6.9%
2 H Home Bargains - +5.8%
3 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -5.6%
4 B B&M Stores logo B&M Stores - -6.7%
5 P Pets at Home logo Pets at Home ▲1 -14.3%
6 H Howarth Timber logo Howarth Timber - -34.3%
7 A Argos logo Argos ▼2 -46.1%
  • Hardware Store
  • Discount Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Bookstore
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Pet Store
  • Discount Off-Price Stores
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

212 tracked store locations in Blackburn, colored by category.

  • Hardware Store (19)
  • Discount Store (16)
  • Home Improvement Center (16)
  • Bookstore (15)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (15)
  • Pet Store (13)
  • Discount Off-Price Stores (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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