Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 113 stores from 94 retail chains in Colchester. Screwfix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of WHSmith and B&M Stores.

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
94
Tracked stores
113
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. Screwfix and WHSmith sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Screwfix logo Screwfix - -5.2%
2 W WHSmith logo WHSmith ▲1 -7.8%
3 B B&M Stores - -24.2%
4 P Poundland logo Poundland ▼1 -41.2%
5 C Colchester Borough Council - -58.4%
  • Discount Store
  • Bookstore
  • Specialty Store
  • Clothing Store
  • Electronics Store
  • Pet Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

113 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (14)
  • Bookstore (13)
  • Specialty Store (12)
  • Clothing Store (11)
  • Electronics Store (7)
  • Pet Store (7)
  • Hardware Store (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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