Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Durham and Bishop Auckland

Iceflower tracks 160 stores from 71 grocery & convenience chains in Durham and Bishop Auckland. ALDI grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Heron Foods and Tesco.

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
71
Tracked stores
160
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. ALDI and Heron Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A ALDI logo ALDI - +7.7%
2 H Heron Foods ▲1 +6.3%
3 T Tesco logo Tesco - +2.6%
4 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +0.5%
5 S SPAR - +0.3%
6 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -2.1%
7 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - -3.0%
8 P Premier - -4.0%
9 L Lidl logo Lidl - -6.5%
10 I Iceland - -9.9%
11 M McColl's ▼1 -34.0%

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Grocery Store (103)
  • Convenience Store (42)
  • Butcher Shop (8)
  • Liquor Store (3)
  • Farm (2)
  • Food or Beverage Store (1)
  • Warehouse Club (1)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 18
  • 2 P Premier 12
  • 3 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 10
  • 4 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 10
  • 5 M McColl's 6
  • 6 O One Stop 6
  • 7 S SPAR 6
  • 8 L Lidl logo Lidl 6
  • 9 A ALDI logo ALDI 6
  • 10 T Tesco logo Tesco 6
  • 11 H Heron Foods 5
  • 12 I Iceland 3
  • 13 G Go Local 3
  • 14 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 2
  • 15 A Asda logo Asda 2
  • 16 H Holland & Barrett 2
  • 17 B Best-one 2
  • 18 C Commercial Convenience Store 2
  • 19 K Kash's Off Licence 1
  • 20 S Shergill Stores 1
  • 21 M Mainsforth Convenience Store 1
  • 22 W Walkers Butchers and Bakers 1
  • 23 O Ox Close Farm 1
  • 24 N New Savers 1
  • 25 S Sedgefield Convenience Store 1
  • 26 G Gills 1
  • 27 D Deerness Valley Meats 1
  • 28 M McFarlanes Family Butchers 1
  • 29 R R & B Convenience Store 1
  • 30 N N. Hocking Butchers 1
  • 31 G Grape Tree 1
  • 32 N News Express 1
  • 33 X Xpress Stores Ltd 1
  • 34 S Scotmid 1
  • 35 E Eldon Lane Convenience Store 1
  • 36 B Bishop Middleham Village Store 1
  • 37 M Maan Brothers 1
  • 38 H H. Taylor & Sons 1
  • 39 T Taylor's Butchers 1
  • 40 L Ludworth Convenience Store 1
  • 41 W Wensley Convenience Store 1
  • 42 W Woodham Village Store 1
  • 43 H Hunwick WMC 1
  • 44 F Finlays Best-One Express 1
  • 45 G George Bolam Foods 1
  • 46 F Farmfoods 1
  • 47 F Family Shopper 1
  • 48 A Applegreen logo Applegreen 1
  • 49 B Barmoor Services - Penny on the Move 1
  • 50 D Durham Halal Superstore 1

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