Trends · data through September 2026

Bookstores in Bristol

Iceflower tracks 34 stores from 24 bookstore chains in Bristol.

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
24
Tracked stores
34
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bookstore 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.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -9.3%
  • WHSmith
  • Waterstones
  • Gloucester Road Books
  • Excelsior Comics
  • Bellevue News
  • Bobby's Newsagents
  • Star Value
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

34 tracked store locations in Bristol. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • WHSmith (10)
  • Waterstones (2)
  • Gloucester Road Books (1)
  • Excelsior Comics (1)
  • Bellevue News (1)
  • Bobby's Newsagents (1)
  • Star Value (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith 10
  • 2 W Waterstones logo Waterstones 2
  • 3 G Gloucester Road Books 1
  • 4 E Excelsior Comics 1
  • 5 B Bellevue News 1
  • 6 B Bobby's Newsagents 1
  • 7 S Star Value 1
  • 8 C Corner News 1
  • 9 B Bloomfield News 1
  • 10 B Bookhaus 1
  • 11 F Feeder Road News 1
  • 12 N North Street News 1
  • 13 S Storysmith logo Storysmith 1
  • 14 T The Small City Bookshop 1
  • 15 A Amed Market 1
  • 16 K Kingswood Kards 1
  • 17 H Heron Books 1
  • 18 B Broadwalk Market 1
  • 19 S Stanfords logo Stanfords 1
  • 20 N Nibley News 1
  • 21 B Bristol News 1
  • 22 A Amnesty Bookshop logo Amnesty Bookshop 1
  • 23 S St. Werburghs Food & Wine 1
  • 24 M Martin the Newsagent 1

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