Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Blackpool

Iceflower tracks 260 stores from 108 grocery & convenience chains in Blackpool. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McColl's and ALDI.

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
108
Tracked stores
260
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. M&S Simply Food and McColl's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +18.3%
2 M McColl's ▲1 +10.8%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI - +9.4%
4 H Heron Foods - +7.9%
5 B Booths ▼1 +4.3%
6 T Tesco logo Tesco - +0.1%
7 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 -2.8%
8 O One Stop - -3.3%
9 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -3.7%
10 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - -5.0%
11 L Londis - -5.8%
12 A Asda logo Asda - -8.6%
13 I Iceland ▲1 -9.2%
14 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 -11.4%
15 C Costcutter - -11.4%

Store footprint

Store map

260 tracked store locations in Blackpool, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (144)
  • Convenience Store (89)
  • Liquor Store (15)
  • Butcher Shop (9)
  • Farmers Market (1)
  • Warehouse Club (1)
  • Food or Beverage Store (1)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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