Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Medway

Iceflower tracks 1,813 stores from 1,204 retail and consumer chains in Medway. Home Bargains grew fastest over the last year, ahead of KFC and Screwfix.

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
1,204
Tracked stores
1,813
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. Home Bargains and KFC sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Home Bargains - +15.0%
2 K KFC logo KFC ▲2 +13.4%
3 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲3 +13.3%
4 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners ▲4 +12.1%
5 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲6 +11.4%
6 P Peacocks ▲5 +10.3%
7 B BP logo BP ▲2 +10.3%
8 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +9.6%
9 N Next ▲4 +9.5%
10 L Londis ▲4 +8.9%
11 T The Works ▲4 +8.9%
12 W WHSmith logo WHSmith ▲2 +8.7%
13 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - +8.5%
14 P Paydens Pharmacies - +8.3%
15 C Currys ▲2 +8.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,813 tracked store locations in Medway, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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