Growth
Specsavers against its category
The biggest tracked UK optician 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 Specsavers's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
V
Vision Express
|
+1.0% |
| 2 |
S
Specsavers
|
-1.4% |
| 3 | B Boots Optician | -15.1% |
| 4 | J Jimmy Fairly | +8.7% |
| 5 |
O
Opticians Direct
|
-50.7% |
| 6 | I instore opticians morrisons hillsborough | - |
| 7 |
S
Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care
|
-14.5% |
| 8 | B Bloobloom | +1.3% |
| 9 | D Dixons Opticians | - |
| 10 | S Salmoni Opticians | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
808 tracked Specsavers locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- South East 115
- London 98
- East of England 82
- North West 82
- South West 76
- West Midlands 68
- Scotland 67
- East Midlands 62
- Yorkshire and The Humber 62
- Wales 44
- North East 33
- Northern Ireland 19
Customer overlap
Who shops at Specsavers
Tracked chains Specsavers customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
C
Clarion Housing Group
45
Clarion Housing Group
45
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