Trends · data through September 2026

Discount Grocers in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 4,003 stores from 13 discount grocers in the United Kingdom. Company Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Heron Foods.

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
13
Tracked stores
4,003
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount grocers

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. Company Shop and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Company Shop logo Company Shop - +17.1%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +4.5%
3 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods - +2.4%
4 L Lidl logo Lidl - -16.3%
  • ALDI
  • Lidl
  • Iceland
  • Farmfoods
  • Heron Foods
  • Company Shop
  • Way 2 Save
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,003 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • ALDI (1,150)
  • Lidl (1,164)
  • Iceland (947)
  • Farmfoods (369)
  • Heron Foods (340)
  • Company Shop (16)
  • Way 2 Save (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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