Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Blackpool

Iceflower tracks 1,388 stores from 1,023 retail and consumer chains in Blackpool. McColl's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S Simply Food and Sainsbury'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
1,023
Tracked stores
1,388
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. McColl's and M&S Simply Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M McColl's logo McColl's ▲1 +19.6%
2 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲2 +16.9%
3 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +16.6%
4 T The Works logo The Works - +15.9%
5 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲2 +15.6%
6 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +14.1%
7 P Peacocks logo Peacocks ▲4 +11.7%
8 H Home Bargains ▲1 +11.3%
9 K KFC logo KFC ▲2 +11.0%
10 C Clarks logo Clarks ▲4 +10.6%
11 S Savers logo Savers ▲2 +8.7%
12 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +8.6%
13 A Asda logo Asda - +7.7%
14 E Esso logo Esso - +7.6%
15 A Argos logo Argos ▲3 +5.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,388 tracked store locations in Blackpool, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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