Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Swansea

Iceflower tracks 1,468 stores from 1,075 retail and consumer chains in Swansea. Sainsbury's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costa Coffee and Boots.

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
1,075
Tracked stores
1,468
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. Sainsbury's and Costa Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +14.7%
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲4 +14.3%
3 B Boots logo Boots ▲1 +14.0%
4 E Esso logo Esso - +13.1%
5 P Premier logo Premier - +12.3%
6 L Lifestyle Express ▲1 +11.4%
7 H Halfords logo Halfords - +10.4%
8 H Home Bargains ▲2 +9.4%
9 R River Island logo River Island ▲1 +9.0%
10 S Shell logo Shell ▲4 +7.7%
11 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +6.7%
12 S SPAR logo SPAR ▲2 +5.8%
13 B B&M logo B&M - +4.8%
14 S Specsavers logo Specsavers ▲1 +4.4%
15 P Pets at Home logo Pets at Home - +4.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,468 tracked store locations in Swansea, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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