Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Preston

Iceflower tracks 1,777 stores from 1,301 retail and consumer chains in Preston. Boots grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Wheatsheaf and Toolstation UK.

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
1,301
Tracked stores
1,777
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. Boots and The Wheatsheaf sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Boots logo Boots ▲3 +15.5%
2 T The Wheatsheaf - +14.1%
3 T Toolstation UK logo Toolstation UK - +13.8%
4 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲2 +12.7%
5 B BAE Systems logo BAE Systems ▲4 +12.4%
6 C Card Factory logo Card Factory ▲2 +11.6%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲2 +11.2%
8 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - +8.0%
9 I Iceland logo Iceland ▲2 +7.9%
10 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲2 +7.8%
11 N Next logo Next ▲2 +7.8%
12 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local - +7.7%
13 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +7.0%
14 B Booths logo Booths - +6.4%
15 P Premier logo Premier ▲1 +4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,777 tracked store locations in Preston, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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