Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Cambridge

Iceflower tracks 343 stores from 125 grocery & convenience chains in Cambridge. Budgens grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S Simply Food and Iceland.

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
125
Tracked stores
343
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. Budgens and M&S Simply Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Budgens ▲1 +18.6%
2 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +10.7%
3 I Iceland - +3.0%
4 A ALDI logo ALDI - +1.9%
5 P Premier ▼1 +1.2%
6 T Tesco logo Tesco - +0.4%
7 L Lidl logo Lidl - -1.3%
8 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local - -2.9%
9 A Asda logo Asda - -3.8%
10 S SPAR - -4.2%
11 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -4.9%
12 C Central Co-op Food - -4.9%
13 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - -5.5%
14 B Best-one - -6.3%
15 O One Stop - -6.4%

Store footprint

Store map

343 tracked store locations in Cambridge, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (243)
  • Convenience Store (78)
  • Butcher Shop (9)
  • Farmers Market (6)
  • Liquor Store (4)
  • Food or Beverage Store (2)
  • Produce Store (1)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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