Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 43,021 stores from 14,505 grocery & convenience chains in the United Kingdom. Booker Wholesale grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Family Choice and Watan Mini Market.

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
14,505
Tracked stores
43,021
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. Booker Wholesale and Family Choice sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Booker Wholesale - +19.5%
2 F Family Choice ▲3 +18.5%
3 W Watan Mini Market ▲2 +18.3%
4 S Scotmid Co-op ▲5 +18.2%
5 M M&S ▲3 +18.1%
6 F Filco ▲5 +18.0%
7 L Lily O'Brien's Chocolates - +17.3%
8 M Masala Bazaar ▲3 +16.7%
9 L Local Express ▲1 +14.7%
10 A Asda On The Move ▲2 +13.1%
11 S Shop Local ▲6 +12.1%
12 F Farmfoods - +12.0%
13 F Family Shopper ▲2 +11.7%
14 F Freshco ▲1 +11.2%
15 D Dhamecha Cash & Carry ▲2 +11.2%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 43,021 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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