Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Wakefield and Castleford

Iceflower tracks 1,339 stores from 1,009 retail and consumer chains in Wakefield and Castleford. CeX grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Post Office and Morrisons.

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
1,009
Tracked stores
1,339
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. CeX and Post Office sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CeX logo CeX ▲1 +18.1%
2 P Post Office logo Post Office ▲2 +17.5%
3 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +17.3%
4 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲3 +15.9%
5 P Premier Inn logo Premier Inn ▲2 +14.7%
6 F Farmfoods logo Farmfoods ▲2 +13.7%
7 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +13.2%
8 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲1 +11.3%
9 S Savers logo Savers ▲1 +10.2%
10 K KFC logo KFC ▲3 +9.2%
11 S SPAR logo SPAR ▲1 +9.1%
12 S Specsavers logo Specsavers ▲3 +8.2%
13 C Card Factory logo Card Factory ▲1 +8.0%
14 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +7.0%
15 P Peacocks logo Peacocks ▲4 +6.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,339 tracked store locations in Wakefield and Castleford, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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