Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in York

Iceflower tracks 290 stores from 237 retail chains in York. Savers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Works and Home Bargains.

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: 237
Tracked stores: 290
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. Savers and The Works sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	S Savers	▲3	+19.0%
2	T The Works	▲1	+13.2%
3	H Home Bargains	-	-0.3%
4	S Screwfix	▼1	-4.1%
5	C Card Factory	-	-4.3%
6	G GO Outdoors	-	-5.7%
7	P Pets at Home	-	-5.9%
8	P Poundland	▲1	-6.2%
9	P Pavers Shoes	-	-7.9%
10	A Argos	▼3	-15.4%
11	B B&M Stores	-	-17.0%
12	N New Look	-	-18.5%
13	W WHSmith	▼1	-43.7%

Gift Shop
Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands
Bookstore
Specialty Store
Hardware Store
Other clothing stores
Family & Value Apparel
Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

290 tracked store locations in York, colored by category.

Gift Shop (32)
Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands (16)
Bookstore (16)
Specialty Store (13)
Hardware Store (13)
Other clothing stores (12)
Family & Value Apparel (12)
Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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