Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Preston

Iceflower tracks 298 stores from 111 grocery & convenience chains in Preston. Heron Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Premier and Tesco.

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
111
Tracked stores
298
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. Heron Foods and Premier sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Heron Foods - +14.7%
2 P Premier ▲2 +11.0%
3 T Tesco logo Tesco - +4.5%
4 B Booths ▲1 +4.3%
5 S SPAR - +0.8%
6 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - -1.5%
7 O One Stop - -1.8%
8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - -2.6%
9 L Lidl logo Lidl - -2.7%
10 A ALDI logo ALDI - -3.4%
11 I Iceland ▲1 -4.4%
12 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▼1 -4.5%
13 A Asda logo Asda - -5.2%
14 B Bargain Booze ▼1 -9.1%
15 M McColl's ▼1 -30.7%

Store footprint

Store map

298 tracked store locations in Preston, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (157)
  • Convenience Store (95)
  • Liquor Store (25)
  • Butcher Shop (9)
  • Farmers Market (5)
  • Food or Beverage Store (3)
  • Warehouse Club (2)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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