Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Edinburgh

Iceflower tracks 2,723 stores from 1,867 retail and consumer chains in Edinburgh. Premier grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Specsavers and Co-op Food.

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
1,867
Tracked stores
2,723
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. Premier and Specsavers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Premier ▲5 +18.0%
2 S Specsavers - +17.6%
3 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▲1 +14.1%
4 H Holland & Barrett ▲4 +12.1%
5 B Best-one ▲1 +11.6%
6 T The Works ▲1 +11.1%
7 T The Perfume Shop ▲3 +4.9%
8 H Halfords ▲6 +4.8%
9 C Card Factory ▲4 +4.4%
10 F Farmfoods ▲1 +3.0%
11 W WHSmith logo WHSmith ▲1 +2.7%
12 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx ▲1 +2.2%
13 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +1.7%
14 B Bayne's ▲1 +1.0%
15 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲1 +0.1%

Store footprint

Store map

2,723 tracked store locations in Edinburgh, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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