Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Middlesbrough and Stockton

Iceflower tracks 351 stores from 129 grocery & convenience chains in Middlesbrough and Stockton. Best-one grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Premier and SPAR.

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
129
Tracked stores
351
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. Best-one and Premier sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Best-one logo Best-one - +15.9%
2 P Premier logo Premier ▲1 +15.8%
3 S SPAR logo SPAR - +11.5%
4 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +11.4%
5 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +10.9%
6 F Family Shopper - +9.7%
7 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +5.9%
8 O One Stop logo One Stop - +3.0%
9 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +2.9%
10 A Asda logo Asda ▲1 +2.8%
11 I Iceland logo Iceland - +1.2%
12 T Tesco logo Tesco - -2.3%
13 M McColl's logo McColl's - -10.6%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI ▼1 -16.8%
15 L Lidl logo Lidl - -17.8%

Store footprint

Store map

351 tracked store locations in Middlesbrough and Stockton, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (120)
  • Supermarkets (93)
  • Discount Grocers (51)
  • Other grocery stores (36)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (16)
  • Butcher Shop (16)
  • Liquor Store (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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