Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

V Vision Express

Iceflower tracks 150 Vision Express stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 32 tracked UK opticians chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -2.9% 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
150
Regions
12
Category
Optician
Category rank
#1

Growth

Vision Express against its category

The biggest tracked UK opticians 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 Vision Express's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 V Vision Express -2.9%
2 S Specsavers +5.5%
3 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut -
4 O Opticians Direct -12.0%
5 B Boots Optician -25.4%
6 J Jimmy Fairly +3.9%
7 S Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care -
8 B Blackham -35.5%
9 T The Glasses Factory -34.4%
10 B Batty&Dexter Opticians Liverpool -48.5%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 100.2 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

150 tracked Vision Express locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 26
  • London 21
  • South West 17
  • Scotland 16
  • East of England 14
  • North West 13
  • Wales 9
  • West Midlands 9
  • East Midlands 8
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 8
  • North East 6
  • Northern Ireland 3

Customer overlap

Who shops at Vision Express

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

T Tesco logo Tesco 100
Y YO! Ayr Tesco Kiosk 54
Y YO! Sushi 45
T Tesco Cafe 39
Y YO! Bletchley Tesco Kiosk 30
M McDonald's logo McDonald's 14
A ALDI logo ALDI 7

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