Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 1,121 stores from 375 grocery stores chains in Manchester. Lifestyle Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Your Local and Holland & Barrett.

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
375
Tracked stores
1,121
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. Lifestyle Express and Your Local sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lifestyle Express ▲1 +14.9%
2 Y Your Local ▲1 +10.6%
3 H Holland & Barrett - +9.5%
4 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +7.7%
5 M Mini Market - +7.0%
6 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +5.5%
7 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - +4.7%
8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +4.2%
9 B Budgens - +3.4%
10 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +3.1%
11 L Lidl logo Lidl - -0.3%
12 T Tesco logo Tesco - -1.6%
13 C Costcutter - -2.4%
14 C Creamline Dairies ▼1 -2.7%
15 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -3.9%
  • Tesco
  • ALDI
  • Asda
  • Morrisons
  • Sainsbury's
  • Lidl
  • M&S Simply Food
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,121 tracked store locations in Manchester. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tesco (120)
  • ALDI (63)
  • Asda (61)
  • Morrisons (63)
  • Sainsbury's (46)
  • Lidl (41)
  • M&S Simply Food (32)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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