Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Wolverhampton and Walsall

Iceflower tracks 427 stores from 272 retail chains in Wolverhampton and Walsall. Shoe Zone grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Argos and The Works.

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
272
Tracked stores
427
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Shoe Zone and Argos sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shoe Zone logo Shoe Zone ▲1 +19.9%
2 A Argos logo Argos ▲1 +18.2%
3 T The Works logo The Works ▲2 +16.9%
4 W Waterstones logo Waterstones ▲1 +14.9%
5 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx - +12.5%
6 H Home Bargains ▲1 +9.2%
7 W Wickes logo Wickes - +8.6%
8 N Next logo Next ▲1 +8.5%
9 M Matalan logo Matalan ▲1 +8.3%
10 S Screwfix logo Screwfix - +7.9%
11 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▲1 +7.0%
12 C CeX logo CeX - +1.2%
13 C Card Factory logo Card Factory - +0.8%
14 N New Look logo New Look ▲1 -0.3%
15 T Toolstation UK logo Toolstation UK ▼1 -2.1%
  • Discount Store
  • Hardware Store
  • Discount Off-Price Stores
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Retail Location
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops
  • Bookstore
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

427 tracked store locations in Wolverhampton and Walsall, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (32)
  • Hardware Store (29)
  • Discount Off-Price Stores (26)
  • Home Improvement Center (26)
  • Retail Location (23)
  • Vape & Tobacco Shops (22)
  • Bookstore (20)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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