Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Cambridge

Iceflower tracks 403 stores from 163 grocery & convenience chains in Cambridge. Premier grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Central Co-op 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
163
Tracked stores
403
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. Premier and Central Co-op Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Premier logo Premier - +18.5%
2 C Central Co-op Food logo Central Co-op Food - +17.6%
3 I Iceland logo Iceland - +15.2%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +14.9%
5 A Asda logo Asda - +14.4%
6 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +13.7%
7 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +12.6%
8 O One Stop logo One Stop - +11.4%
9 B Budgens logo Budgens - +9.8%
10 B Best-one logo Best-one ▲1 +9.3%
11 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners ▲1 +9.1%
12 M McColl's logo McColl's - +8.8%
13 A ALDI logo ALDI - +6.2%
14 H Hotel Chocolat logo Hotel Chocolat ▼1 -2.9%
15 L Londis logo Londis - -6.2%

Store footprint

Store map

403 tracked store locations in Cambridge, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (129)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (94)
  • Other grocery stores (63)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (27)
  • Discount Grocers (25)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (21)
  • Butcher Shop (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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