Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Bedford

Iceflower tracks 828 stores from 648 retail and consumer chains in Bedford. Shell grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Greggs and McDonald'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
648
Tracked stores
828
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. Shell and Greggs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shell logo Shell - +19.8%
2 G Greggs logo Greggs - +16.4%
3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +15.3%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +14.2%
5 C Center Parcs Woburn Forest logo Center Parcs Woburn Forest ▲1 +11.4%
6 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +11.0%
7 P Premier logo Premier ▲5 +10.9%
8 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +8.3%
9 S Specsavers logo Specsavers - +7.1%
10 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +4.8%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King ▼1 +1.2%
12 K KFC logo KFC - -0.7%
13 T The Cross Keys - -0.9%
14 S Subway logo Subway ▲2 -1.3%
15 O One Stop logo One Stop - -1.6%

Store footprint

Store map

828 tracked store locations in Bedford, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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