Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 718 stores from 553 retail and consumer chains in Colchester. SPAR grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Boots and M&S Simply Food.

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
553
Tracked stores
718
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. SPAR and Boots sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S SPAR - +11.1%
2 B Boots logo Boots ▲3 +8.4%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +6.4%
4 P Post Office ▲3 +1.7%
5 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 +1.4%
6 A ALDI logo ALDI - +0.6%
7 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 -0.1%
8 T Tesco logo Tesco - -0.6%
9 S Screwfix logo Screwfix - -2.7%
10 G Greggs logo Greggs - -3.3%
11 S Subway logo Subway - -5.0%
12 W WHSmith logo WHSmith ▲1 -5.4%
13 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -6.7%
14 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▼1 -7.7%
15 O One Stop ▲1 -8.3%

Store footprint

Store map

718 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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