Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Cardiff

Iceflower tracks 2,335 stores from 1,513 retail and consumer chains in Cardiff. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Specsavers.

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
1,513
Tracked stores
2,335
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. Burger King and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲6 +17.7%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +17.1%
3 S Specsavers logo Specsavers ▲4 +14.9%
4 N Next logo Next ▲2 +13.7%
5 S Sports Direct logo Sports Direct ▲2 +12.1%
6 S Savers logo Savers ▲2 +11.0%
7 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲2 +10.6%
8 E Esso logo Esso ▲1 +10.2%
9 B B&Q logo B&Q ▲1 +8.5%
10 P Peacocks logo Peacocks ▲3 +8.5%
11 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +7.8%
12 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett ▲1 +7.4%
13 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger - +7.3%
14 H Halfords logo Halfords ▲1 +6.7%
15 K KFC logo KFC ▲5 +5.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,335 tracked store locations in Cardiff, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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