Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Blackpool

Iceflower tracks 1,120 stores from 800 retail and consumer chains in Blackpool. Post Office grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Esso and M&S Simply Food.

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
800
Tracked stores
1,120
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. Post Office and Esso sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Post Office ▲3 +19.9%
2 E Esso ▲1 +15.0%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +14.7%
4 S Subway logo Subway ▲5 +14.3%
5 P Peacocks ▲3 +12.1%
6 N Next ▲4 +11.2%
7 M McColl's ▲1 +7.5%
8 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 +7.5%
9 T The Works - +7.1%
10 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +6.8%
11 A ALDI logo ALDI - +6.1%
12 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲2 +5.7%
13 B Boots logo Boots ▲4 +5.5%
14 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲1 +4.9%
15 H Heron Foods ▼1 +4.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,120 tracked store locations in Blackpool, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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