Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Chelmsford

Iceflower tracks 1,405 stores from 943 retail and consumer chains in Chelmsford. Wickes grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costcutter and Caffè Nero.

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
943
Tracked stores
1,405
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. Wickes and Costcutter sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Wickes logo Wickes - +19.6%
2 C Costcutter ▲2 +19.1%
3 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲4 +17.1%
4 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲5 +16.8%
5 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲6 +13.2%
6 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲4 +12.9%
7 S Subway logo Subway ▲2 +12.7%
8 B BP logo BP ▲1 +12.2%
9 H Holland & Barrett ▲1 +11.6%
10 W Waterstones logo Waterstones - +11.4%
11 P Premier ▲5 +9.6%
12 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲2 +9.4%
13 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx - +8.5%
14 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +7.0%
15 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +6.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,405 tracked store locations in Chelmsford, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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