Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 176 stores from 93 grocery & convenience chains in Colchester. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Morrisons and SPAR.

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
93
Tracked stores
176
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. M&S Simply Food and Morrisons sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +19.8%
2 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +14.1%
3 S SPAR logo SPAR - +12.8%
4 I Iceland logo Iceland - +6.0%
5 E East of England Co-op logo East of England Co-op ▲1 +5.9%
6 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +5.2%
7 O One Stop logo One Stop - +2.5%
8 A ALDI logo ALDI - -6.9%
9 T Tesco logo Tesco - -10.5%
10 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼2 -53.2%

Store footprint

Store map

176 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (56)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (48)
  • Other grocery stores (26)
  • Discount Grocers (11)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (8)
  • Butcher Shop (7)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 E East of England Co-op logo East of England Co-op 16
  • 2 P Premier logo Premier 12
  • 3 T Tesco logo Tesco 11
  • 4 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 8
  • 5 S SPAR logo SPAR 7
  • 6 C Costa Express logo Costa Express 6
  • 7 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 5
  • 8 O One Stop logo One Stop 4
  • 9 A ALDI logo ALDI 4
  • 10 I Iceland logo Iceland 4
  • 11 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 4
  • 12 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 4
  • 13 M McColl's logo McColl's 4
  • 14 L Lidl logo Lidl 3
  • 15 C Costcutter logo Costcutter 2
  • 16 T Tara Traders 2
  • 17 H Hall Farm 2
  • 18 L Londis logo Londis 2
  • 19 A Asda logo Asda 2
  • 20 A Alresford Village Stores 1
  • 21 S St Georges Stores 1
  • 22 F Food Simply 1
  • 23 C Claydons Newsagents 1
  • 24 J JD Stores 1
  • 25 W Wine Me Up 1
  • 26 M Momosh corner 1
  • 27 W Welcome Colchester 1
  • 28 G Gurkha Groceries 1
  • 29 S Swiss Farm Butchers Colchester 1
  • 30 O Ocean Supermarket 1
  • 31 T Terry Store 1
  • 32 S Stour View Stores 1
  • 33 S S J FamilyMart 1
  • 34 Q Queen Street Continental Supermarket 1
  • 35 K Kishor Convenience 1
  • 36 T The Beer Tent 1
  • 37 T The Willows Convenience Store 1
  • 38 O Osborne Convenience Store 1
  • 39 C Canteen logo Canteen 1
  • 40 A Ardleigh Convenience Store 1
  • 41 G Grants Off Licence 1
  • 42 P Pic'a Nut 1
  • 43 S St Botolph's Street Convenience Store 1
  • 44 H Hill Top Off-Licence & Convenience Store 1
  • 45 J JAM International Store 1
  • 46 T The Bargain Stores with Garden World 1
  • 47 I I & A Butchers 1
  • 48 J J Burgess and Sons 1
  • 49 R Rowhedge convenience store 1
  • 50 G General Store 1

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