Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Newcastle

Iceflower tracks 709 stores from 278 grocery & convenience chains in Newcastle. Costa Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Morrisons and M&S Simply Food.

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
278
Tracked stores
709
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. Costa Express and Morrisons sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +18.1%
2 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 +15.5%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +14.8%
4 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +13.8%
5 D Dicksons logo Dicksons - +7.0%
6 I Iceland logo Iceland - +6.8%
7 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▼1 +6.2%
8 S SPAR logo SPAR ▲2 +5.3%
9 A Asda logo Asda - -0.4%
10 T Tesco logo Tesco - -5.3%
11 O One Stop logo One Stop - -17.8%
12 A ALDI logo ALDI - -17.9%
13 L Londis logo Londis ▲1 -19.9%
14 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods ▼1 -26.8%
15 M McColl's logo McColl's - -30.7%

Store footprint

Store map

709 tracked store locations in Newcastle, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (238)
  • Supermarkets (158)
  • Discount Grocers (100)
  • Other grocery stores (97)
  • Butcher Shop (29)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (16)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (16)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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