Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 105 stores from 53 grocery stores chains in Colchester. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Sainsbury's.

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
53
Tracked stores
105
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. M&S Simply Food and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +9.6%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +3.6%
3 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +2.9%
4 T Tesco logo Tesco - +2.4%
5 L Lidl logo Lidl - -7.5%
6 E East of England Co-op logo East of England Co-op - -10.5%
7 I Iceland logo Iceland - -12.9%
8 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -21.8%
  • Tesco
  • Sainsbury's
  • ALDI
  • Asda
  • Lidl
  • M&S Simply Food
  • East of England Co-op
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

105 tracked store locations in Colchester. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tesco (11)
  • Sainsbury's (4)
  • ALDI (4)
  • Asda (2)
  • Lidl (3)
  • M&S Simply Food (5)
  • East of England Co-op (15)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 E East of England Co-op logo East of England Co-op 15
  • 2 T Tesco logo Tesco 11
  • 3 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 8
  • 4 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 5
  • 5 A ALDI logo ALDI 4
  • 6 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 4
  • 7 I Iceland logo Iceland 4
  • 8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 4
  • 9 L Lidl logo Lidl 3
  • 10 A Asda logo Asda 2
  • 11 C Costcutter logo Costcutter 2
  • 12 T Tara Traders 2
  • 13 F Food Simply 1
  • 14 P Park Street Stores & Post Office 1
  • 15 A Alresford Village Stores 1
  • 16 O Ocean Supermarket 1
  • 17 P Prettygate Convenience Store 1
  • 18 B Bonners Barn 1
  • 19 Q Queen Street Continental Supermarket 1
  • 20 H Homeland logo Homeland 1
  • 21 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett 1
  • 22 S Stour View Stores 1
  • 23 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners 1
  • 24 S St Georges Stores 1
  • 25 K Kando 1
  • 26 G Grape Tree logo Grape Tree 1
  • 27 C Claydons Newsagents 1
  • 28 C City Centre Convenience Store 1
  • 29 H Hythe Convenience Store 1
  • 30 A Ardleigh Convenience Store 1
  • 31 S St Botolph's Street Convenience Store 1
  • 32 H Hill Top Off-Licence & Convenience Store 1
  • 33 J JAM International Store 1
  • 34 Y Yawee Foods Wholesale Cash and Carry 1
  • 35 B Budgens logo Budgens 1
  • 36 L Lexden Convenience Store 1
  • 37 B Budgens Stores 1
  • 38 S Stanway 1
  • 39 S Starry Mart logo Starry Mart 1
  • 40 F FoodInc 1
  • 41 C Choice Foods Colchester 1
  • 42 T The Co-operative Food 1
  • 43 C Co-op Daily logo Co-op Daily 1
  • 44 T The Store 1
  • 45 D Dhaulagiri Store 1
  • 46 H Hawkins Super Store 1
  • 47 S SPAR - West Mersea 1
  • 48 G Greenstead Grocery 1
  • 49 K Kishor Convenience 1
  • 50 N Noor Supermarket 1

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