Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Cardiff

Iceflower tracks 348 stores from 212 retail chains in Cardiff. Next grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Works and Sports Direct.

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
212
Tracked stores
348
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. Next and The Works sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 N Next ▲2 +12.7%
2 T The Works - +12.2%
3 S Sports Direct - +11.1%
4 S Savers ▲1 +10.0%
5 B B&Q - +7.5%
6 P Peacocks ▲1 +7.5%
7 H Home Bargains - +1.6%
8 C Currys ▲2 +1.5%
9 T Toolstation UK ▼1 +1.4%
10 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx - +0.7%
11 C Card Factory - -0.1%
12 J JD Sports logo JD Sports - -0.6%
13 B B&M Stores - -1.2%
14 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -2.3%
15 R River Island logo River Island ▲1 -3.0%

Store footprint

Store map

348 tracked store locations in Cardiff, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (53)
  • Clothing Store (50)
  • Hardware Store (25)
  • Gift Shop (23)
  • Bookstore (19)
  • Sporting Goods Store (17)
  • Electronics Store (17)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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