Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Wakefield and Castleford

Iceflower tracks 223 stores from 120 grocery & convenience chains in Wakefield and Castleford. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Best-one 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
120
Tracked stores
223
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. M&S Simply Food and Best-one sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +14.8%
2 B Best-one - +11.8%
3 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +5.9%
4 F Farmfoods ▲1 +3.3%
5 M McColl's - +0.9%
6 A ALDI logo ALDI - +0.7%
7 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - -2.2%
8 P Premier - -3.7%
9 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▼2 -4.8%
10 T Tesco logo Tesco - -5.3%
11 A Asda logo Asda - -5.4%
12 I Iceland - -8.4%
13 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local - -11.4%
14 O One Stop - -14.2%
15 S SPAR - -17.5%

Store footprint

Store map

223 tracked store locations in Wakefield and Castleford, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Premier 15
  • 2 T Tesco logo Tesco 12
  • 3 A Asda logo Asda 10
  • 4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 9
  • 5 A ALDI logo ALDI 8
  • 6 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 7
  • 7 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 7
  • 8 O One Stop 6
  • 9 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 5
  • 10 S SPAR 5
  • 11 I Iceland 5
  • 12 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 5
  • 13 F Farmfoods 5
  • 14 L Lidl logo Lidl 5
  • 15 L Londis 4
  • 16 B Best-one 3
  • 17 M McColl's 3
  • 18 H Holland & Barrett 2
  • 19 L Lifestyle Express 2
  • 20 F Family Shopper 2
  • 21 G Go Local 2
  • 22 B Bargain Booze 2
  • 23 H Heron Foods 2
  • 24 C Continental Food Store 1
  • 25 W Wakey Wines 1
  • 26 B Baltic Foods 1
  • 27 S Sheema Food Stores 1
  • 28 C Castle Parade Store 1
  • 29 J JK News & Wines 1
  • 30 S Sahota's 1
  • 31 H Horners 1
  • 32 N Nithu's Local 1
  • 33 K Kinsley News and Booze 1
  • 34 P Patel's Off Licence 1
  • 35 R Ryhill Village Store 1
  • 36 C Castleford Road Off License 1
  • 37 N New Shop Mini Market 1
  • 38 C Cross Lane Mini Mart 1
  • 39 M Moortop Farm Shop 1
  • 40 M Mill Hill Stores 1
  • 41 D Duke of York Avenue Store 1
  • 42 M Moorhouse Stores 1
  • 43 S Spurr's Quality Butchers 1
  • 44 R Ryan Food Plus 1
  • 45 W Winewise Convenience Store 1
  • 46 R R H Binks & Sons 1
  • 47 B BB Nevison Superstore & Post Office 1
  • 48 W West Street Stores 1
  • 49 D Durga Stores 1
  • 50 D Darrington Village Store 1

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