Canterbury Retail & Consumer Trends 2026: Growth Rankings

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. Greggs and Home Bargains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	G Greggs	▲1	+15.5%
2	H Home Bargains	▲1	+10.2%
3	C Costa Coffee	-	+8.5%
4	S Specsavers	▲5	+7.6%
5	M McDonald's	-	+2.7%
6	M M&S Simply Food	▲1	+2.2%
7	S Sainsbury's	-	+1.8%
8	A ALDI	-	+1.4%
9	T Tesco	-	0.0%
10	I Iceland	-	-0.7%
11	S Subway	▲1	-4.8%
12	C Co-op Food	-	-5.1%
13	B Boots	▼2	-6.3%
14	P Premier Inn	▲1	-6.5%
15	H Halfords	-	-7.3%