Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 141 stores from 123 retail chains in Colchester. Screwfix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of B&M Stores and Poundland.

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
123
Tracked stores
141
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 B&M Stores sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲1 -7.3%
2 B B&M Stores logo B&M Stores - -8.0%
3 P Poundland logo Poundland ▼1 -33.2%
4 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -34.3%
5 C Colchester Borough Council logo Colchester Borough Council - -45.4%
  • Bookstore
  • Specialty Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Pet Store
  • Other clothing stores
  • Gift Shop
  • Discount Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

141 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category.

  • Bookstore (13)
  • Specialty Store (13)
  • Hardware Store (9)
  • Pet Store (8)
  • Other clothing stores (7)
  • Gift Shop (6)
  • Discount Store (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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