Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Durham and Bishop Auckland

Iceflower tracks 667 stores from 466 retail and consumer chains in Durham and Bishop Auckland. Greggs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Home Bargains and ALDI.

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
466
Tracked stores
667
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. Greggs and Home Bargains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲1 +12.6%
2 H Home Bargains - +9.1%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI - +8.1%
4 H Heron Foods ▲2 +6.7%
5 B B&M Stores ▲1 +6.5%
6 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - +5.9%
7 C Card Factory - +4.1%
8 B Boots logo Boots - +3.8%
9 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲2 +3.2%
10 T Tesco logo Tesco - +3.0%
11 S Subway logo Subway - +2.6%
12 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 +0.9%
13 S SPAR - +0.7%
14 S Savers ▲3 -0.9%
15 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

667 tracked store locations in Durham and Bishop Auckland, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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