Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

L Lidl logo Lidl

Iceflower tracks 1,149 Lidl stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #5 of 8,128 tracked UK grocery stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -2.1% over the last year.

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 stores
1,149
Regions
12
Category
Grocery Store
Category rank
#5

Growth

Lidl against its category

The biggest tracked UK grocery stores chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Lidl's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 T Tesco logo Tesco +0.2%
2 A Asda logo Asda -6.4%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI +4.2%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's -4.1%
5 L Lidl logo Lidl -2.1%
6 M Morrisons logo Morrisons +5.0%
7 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food +8.1%
8 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food -7.3%
9 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners +2.3%
10 I Iceland -3.0%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 72.8 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

1,149 tracked Lidl locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South West 142
  • London 131
  • South East 125
  • Scotland 123
  • North West 116
  • East of England 96
  • West Midlands 86
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 86
  • East Midlands 77
  • Wales 69
  • North East 50
  • Northern Ireland 48

Customer overlap

Who shops at Lidl

Tracked chains Lidl customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

A ALDI logo ALDI 100
F Farmfoods 63
I Iceland 48
P Poundland logo Poundland 46
A Asda logo Asda 38
B B&M 35
C Costco logo Costco 26
T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx 24

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