Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 900 stores from 712 retail and consumer chains in Colchester. Post Office grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sainsbury's and M&S Simply Food.

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
712
Tracked stores
900
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. Post Office and Sainsbury's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Post Office logo Post Office ▲3 +19.7%
2 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +13.8%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +11.5%
4 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +6.3%
5 B Boots logo Boots ▲1 +6.2%
6 S SPAR logo SPAR - +5.0%
7 S Superdrug logo Superdrug - +4.8%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +4.3%
9 I Iceland logo Iceland ▲1 -1.2%
10 E East of England Co-op logo East of England Co-op ▲1 -1.4%
11 S Screwfix logo Screwfix - -1.7%
12 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -2.0%
13 B B&M Stores logo B&M Stores ▼1 -2.6%
14 O One Stop logo One Stop - -4.5%
15 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▼1 -9.3%

Store footprint

Store map

900 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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