Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Bradford

Iceflower tracks 1,560 stores from 1,182 retail and consumer chains in Bradford. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shell 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
1,182
Tracked stores
1,560
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Subway and Shell sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +16.5%
2 S Shell logo Shell - +16.0%
3 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲2 +12.9%
4 H Home Bargains ▲2 +12.6%
5 P Pepe's logo Pepe's ▲2 +10.2%
6 S Superdrug logo Superdrug - +8.7%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +7.3%
8 N Next logo Next ▲2 +6.2%
9 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods ▲1 +6.1%
10 I Iceland logo Iceland ▲1 +6.1%
11 S Specsavers logo Specsavers ▲2 +5.9%
12 B Boots logo Boots - +5.6%
13 C Card Factory logo Card Factory - +5.0%
14 K KFC logo KFC ▲3 +2.0%
15 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +1.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,560 tracked store locations in Bradford, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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