Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Blyth and Ashington

Iceflower tracks 119 stores from 50 grocery & convenience chains in Blyth and Ashington. Morrisons grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sainsbury's 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
50
Tracked stores
119
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. Morrisons and Sainsbury's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +12.8%
2 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +4.4%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI - -0.6%
4 I Iceland - -3.9%
5 A Asda logo Asda - -5.1%
6 L Lidl logo Lidl - -6.1%
7 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -6.3%
8 P Premier - -7.4%
9 H Heron Foods - -11.9%
10 M McColl's - -13.6%
11 L Lifestyle Express - -17.5%

Store footprint

Store map

119 tracked store locations in Blyth and Ashington, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 21
  • 2 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 9
  • 3 P Premier 9
  • 4 A Asda logo Asda 6
  • 5 A ALDI logo ALDI 5
  • 6 L Lidl logo Lidl 5
  • 7 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 5
  • 8 M McColl's 4
  • 9 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 3
  • 10 L Lifestyle Express 3
  • 11 I Iceland 3
  • 12 H Heron Foods 3
  • 13 S SPAR 2
  • 14 O One Stop 2
  • 15 F Family Shopper 2
  • 16 T Tesco logo Tesco 2
  • 17 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 2
  • 18 F Farmfoods 1
  • 19 L Londis 1
  • 20 H Holland & Barrett 1
  • 21 C Carrs Corner 1
  • 22 N Nelson Village Stores 1
  • 23 N Norvell's Off Licence 1
  • 24 D Dicksons 1
  • 25 A Ashington Convenience Store 1
  • 26 T The Village Farm Shop 1
  • 27 R Rothbury Family Butchers 1
  • 28 S Shy Butchers 1
  • 29 R Randhawa Junction 1
  • 30 W Whitehouse Farm Centre 1
  • 31 L Local Convenience Ashington 1
  • 32 V Value Centre 1
  • 33 C Clifton Service Station 1
  • 34 B Bedlington Services 1
  • 35 T The Fat Butcher 1
  • 36 B Beacon Local Store 1
  • 37 B Best-one 1
  • 38 W Walters news food & wine 1
  • 39 G G S Discount Centre 1
  • 40 B Bank Top Stores 1
  • 41 R R N Cowell Butchers 1
  • 42 V VR Food and Wine 1
  • 43 T The Blagdon Farm Shop 1
  • 44 S Springways 1
  • 45 T The Co-operative Food 1
  • 46 G Gill's Mini-Market 1
  • 47 S Swaledale Convenience Store 1
  • 48 C College Food and Wine 1
  • 49 M Mary Convenience Store 1
  • 50 B Black Diamond Family Shopper 1

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