Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Southend

Iceflower tracks 364 stores from 127 grocery & convenience chains in Southend. Sainsbury's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Asda and McColl's.

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
127
Tracked stores
364
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. Sainsbury's and Asda sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +18.5%
2 A Asda logo Asda ▲1 +16.1%
3 M McColl's logo McColl's - +15.7%
4 O One Stop logo One Stop - +14.6%
5 I Iceland logo Iceland - +11.8%
6 C Costcutter logo Costcutter - +5.8%
7 B Budgens logo Budgens - +4.8%
8 C Cellar Plus - -2.4%
9 T Tesco logo Tesco - -4.7%
10 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - -11.3%
11 A ALDI logo ALDI ▼1 -12.9%
12 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 -42.5%

Store footprint

Store map

364 tracked store locations in Southend, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (131)
  • Supermarkets (95)
  • Other grocery stores (36)
  • Discount Grocers (33)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (20)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (19)
  • Liquor Store (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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