Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 27,340 stores from 8,128 grocery stores chains in the United Kingdom. Watan Mini Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S and Filco.

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
8,128
Tracked stores
27,340
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. Watan Mini Market and M&S sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Watan Mini Market ▲4 +18.6%
2 M M&S - +18.4%
3 F Filco ▲4 +18.3%
4 L Lily O'Brien's Chocolates - +17.6%
5 M Masala Bazaar ▲9 +16.9%
6 R Russells ▲5 +16.4%
7 L Local Express ▲3 +15.0%
8 S Shop Local ▲3 +12.4%
9 F Farmfoods - +12.3%
10 E Elif Food Centre ▲7 +12.2%
11 E European Mini Market ▲4 +11.6%
12 F Freshco ▲7 +11.5%
13 M Mleczko ▲1 +9.3%
14 M M&S Food ▲1 +9.2%
15 M M&S Foodhall ▲2 +9.1%
  • Tesco
  • Asda
  • ALDI
  • Sainsbury's
  • Lidl
  • Morrisons
  • M&S Simply Food
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 27,340 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tesco (3,025)
  • Asda (918)
  • ALDI (1,139)
  • Sainsbury's (1,494)
  • Lidl (1,149)
  • Morrisons (1,339)
  • M&S Simply Food (871)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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