Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 48,692 stores from 17,117 grocery & convenience chains in the United Kingdom. EUROSPAR grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Premier and Mace.

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
17,117
Tracked stores
48,692
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. EUROSPAR and Premier sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E EUROSPAR ▲4 +19.6%
2 P Premier logo Premier - +19.6%
3 M Mace ▲2 +17.6%
4 T The Village Store ▲1 +17.4%
5 E Euro Supermarket ▲5 +17.3%
6 C Costco logo Costco - +17.1%
7 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲1 +17.1%
8 W Worldwide Foods ▲1 +17.0%
9 B Best-one logo Best-one ▲1 +16.8%
10 O Ocado logo Ocado ▲1 +16.3%
11 M M&S Foodhall ▲1 +16.2%
12 U USave ▲3 +14.9%
13 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +14.6%
14 B Bestway Wholesale logo Bestway Wholesale ▲1 +14.4%
15 E Eurospar Ni ▲1 +13.6%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 48,692 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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