Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Blyth and Ashington

Iceflower tracks 480 stores from 340 retail and consumer chains in Blyth and Ashington. Morrisons grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Boots.

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
340
Tracked stores
480
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. Morrisons and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +15.9%
2 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +14.3%
3 B Boots logo Boots ▲1 +13.1%
4 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲1 +10.3%
5 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +7.3%
6 B B&M Stores - +5.7%
7 A ALDI logo ALDI - +2.2%
8 I Iceland ▼1 -1.3%
9 A Asda logo Asda - -2.5%
10 S Shell logo Shell - -3.1%
11 L Lidl logo Lidl - -3.5%
12 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -3.8%
13 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▼1 -4.7%
14 P Premier - -4.8%
15 T The Running Fox ▲2 -5.6%

Store footprint

Store map

480 tracked store locations in Blyth and Ashington, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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