Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Edinburgh

Iceflower tracks 595 stores from 232 grocery & convenience chains in Edinburgh. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Farmfoods and Margiotta.

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
232
Tracked stores
595
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. M&S Simply Food and Farmfoods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +18.0%
2 F Farmfoods logo Farmfoods - +17.3%
3 M Margiotta logo Margiotta - +17.1%
4 B Best-one logo Best-one ▲3 +16.8%
5 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲2 +13.1%
6 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +12.5%
7 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +10.6%
8 A Asda logo Asda - +9.6%
9 S Scotmid logo Scotmid ▲1 +9.6%
10 S SPAR logo SPAR - -0.4%
11 L Lifestyle Express - -1.9%
12 T Tesco logo Tesco - -4.2%
13 I Iceland logo Iceland - -5.1%
14 D Day-Today Express - -6.1%
15 U USave ▲1 -6.7%

Store footprint

Store map

595 tracked store locations in Edinburgh, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (196)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (156)
  • Other grocery stores (89)
  • Discount Grocers (52)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (20)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (19)
  • Butcher Shop (15)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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