Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Iceflower tracks 223 stores from 124 retail chains in Stoke-on-Trent. New Look grew fastest over the last year, ahead of TK Maxx and Argos.

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
124
Tracked stores
223
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. New Look and TK Maxx sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 N New Look logo New Look ▲2 +17.7%
2 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx ▲1 +15.8%
3 A Argos ▲1 +15.5%
4 T The Works - +4.8%
5 H Home Bargains ▲1 +4.0%
6 S Sports Direct ▲1 +2.9%
7 B Bargain World - -1.3%
8 B B&Q - -2.2%
9 N Next ▼1 -3.6%
10 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -4.5%
11 R Ryman logo Ryman - -5.2%
12 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▼1 -5.9%
13 C Card Factory - -6.2%
14 B B&M Stores ▼1 -8.5%
15 S Shoe Zone - -10.2%
  • Discount Store
  • Clothing Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Bookstore
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Shoe Store
  • Gift Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Discount Store (42)
  • Clothing Store (20)
  • Specialty Store (15)
  • Bookstore (15)
  • Home Improvement Center (15)
  • Shoe Store (14)
  • Gift Shop (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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