Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Chester

Iceflower tracks 257 stores from 100 grocery & convenience chains in Chester. Co-op Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Bargain Booze and Costco.

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
100
Tracked stores
257
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. Co-op Food and Bargain Booze sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▲1 +17.1%
2 B Bargain Booze logo Bargain Booze ▲2 +7.0%
3 C Costco logo Costco - +6.5%
4 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +5.1%
5 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +5.0%
6 I Iceland logo Iceland - +2.9%
7 A Asda logo Asda - +0.6%
8 M McColl's logo McColl's ▲2 -1.5%
9 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▼1 -6.2%
10 A ALDI logo ALDI - -7.9%
11 L Londis logo Londis - -9.9%
12 T Tesco logo Tesco - -11.4%
13 T The Food Warehouse logo The Food Warehouse - -14.0%
14 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods - -17.3%
15 S SPAR logo SPAR - -21.3%

Store footprint

Store map

257 tracked store locations in Chester, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (71)
  • Supermarkets (66)
  • Discount Grocers (30)
  • Other grocery stores (21)
  • Liquor Store (15)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (15)
  • Butcher Shop (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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