Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Iceflower tracks 332 stores from 131 grocery & convenience chains in Stoke-on-Trent. Lidl grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sainsbury's 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
131
Tracked stores
332
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. Lidl and Sainsbury's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lidl logo Lidl - +16.9%
2 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +13.0%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +7.7%
4 H Heron Foods ▲1 +5.6%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +5.0%
6 F Farmfoods ▲1 +3.8%
7 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - +0.8%
8 O One Stop - -0.5%
9 T Tesco logo Tesco - -1.7%
10 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local ▲1 -2.5%
11 I Iceland - -3.8%
12 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - -4.2%
13 H Holland & Barrett - -5.7%
14 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▼1 -6.0%
15 S SPAR ▲2 -6.0%

Store footprint

Store map

332 tracked store locations in Stoke-on-Trent, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (194)
  • Convenience Store (92)
  • Liquor Store (25)
  • Butcher Shop (9)
  • Farmers Market (3)
  • Warehouse Club (3)
  • Food or Beverage Store (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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