Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Chester

Iceflower tracks 1,235 stores from 856 retail and consumer chains in Chester. Costa Coffee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Specsavers and Holland & Barrett.

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
856
Tracked stores
1,235
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. Costa Coffee and Specsavers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲6 +19.3%
2 S Specsavers ▲4 +11.3%
3 H Holland & Barrett - +10.8%
4 T Tesco Mobile ▲2 +9.0%
5 P Post Office ▲2 +7.0%
6 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲3 +6.4%
7 O One Stop ▲4 +5.6%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +4.1%
9 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲2 +1.9%
10 S Savers - +1.8%
11 B Boots logo Boots - +1.0%
12 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +0.3%
13 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 -0.1%
14 T Tesco logo Tesco - -0.6%
15 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▲1 -1.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,235 tracked store locations in Chester, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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