Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Aberdeen

Iceflower tracks 1,422 stores from 1,025 retail and consumer chains in Aberdeen. McDonald's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Superdrug and McColl's.

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
1,025
Tracked stores
1,422
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. McDonald's and Superdrug sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲2 +19.6%
2 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲2 +11.7%
3 M McColl's logo McColl's ▲5 +11.0%
4 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +10.8%
5 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +10.2%
6 J J.G. Ross ▲5 +9.8%
7 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▲1 +8.1%
8 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +6.2%
9 S Station Hotel ▲2 +5.6%
10 S Scotmid logo Scotmid ▲1 +4.9%
11 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +4.5%
12 S Shell logo Shell ▲1 +4.2%
13 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲3 +4.0%
14 S Specsavers logo Specsavers ▲3 +1.8%
15 B Boots logo Boots ▲1 +1.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,422 tracked store locations in Aberdeen, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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