Folkestone and Dover Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Post Office and Sainsbury's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	P Post Office	▲2	+16.2%
2	S Sainsbury's	▲1	+13.8%
3	V Vaparettes	-	+11.8%
4	B Boots	-	+9.5%
5	M McDonald's	-	+8.9%
6	I Iceland	-	+7.8%
7	B Burger King	▲1	+4.4%
8	A ALDI	-	+3.0%
9	L Lidl	▼1	+0.9%
10	P Poundland	-	-3.7%
11	S Screwfix	-	-4.7%
12	T Tesco	-	-4.7%
13	A Argos	-	-6.8%
14	T The Ship Inn	-	-15.9%
15	W WHSmith	-	-18.6%