Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Cardiff

Iceflower tracks 562 stores from 207 grocery & convenience chains in Cardiff. Sainsbury's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Londis and Morrisons.

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
207
Tracked stores
562
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. Sainsbury's and Londis sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲2 +19.2%
2 L Londis logo Londis - +17.5%
3 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +17.0%
4 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +14.1%
5 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - +9.3%
6 O One Stop logo One Stop - +6.9%
7 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local - +6.2%
8 I Iceland logo Iceland - +6.2%
9 A Asda logo Asda - +5.9%
10 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +2.4%
11 B Best-one logo Best-one ▲1 +1.7%
12 A ALDI logo ALDI - +0.1%
13 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -1.3%
14 P Premier logo Premier - -4.3%
15 T Tesco logo Tesco - -10.3%

Store footprint

Store map

562 tracked store locations in Cardiff, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (187)
  • Supermarkets (158)
  • Other grocery stores (76)
  • Discount Grocers (56)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (24)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (14)
  • Butcher Shop (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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