Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 158 stores from 85 grocery & convenience chains in Colchester. SPAR grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S Simply Food and ALDI.

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
85
Tracked stores
158
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. SPAR and M&S Simply Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S SPAR - +14.8%
2 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +10.0%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI - +4.0%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +3.2%
5 T Tesco logo Tesco - +2.7%
6 O One Stop ▲1 -5.2%
7 L Lidl logo Lidl - -7.2%
8 E East of England Co-op - -10.2%
9 I Iceland - -12.6%
10 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▼1 -21.5%
11 M McColl's - -63.6%
12 P Premier - -67.2%

Store footprint

Store map

158 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 E East of England Co-op 15
  • 2 T Tesco logo Tesco 11
  • 3 P Premier 9
  • 4 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 8
  • 5 S SPAR 7
  • 6 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 5
  • 7 M McColl's 4
  • 8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 4
  • 9 I Iceland 4
  • 10 O One Stop 4
  • 11 A ALDI logo ALDI 4
  • 12 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 4
  • 13 L Lidl logo Lidl 3
  • 14 A Asda logo Asda 2
  • 15 L Londis 2
  • 16 C Costcutter 2
  • 17 T Tara Traders 2
  • 18 J JAM International Store 1
  • 19 W Wine Me Up 1
  • 20 F Food Simply 1
  • 21 R Rose's General Store 1
  • 22 P Park Street Stores & Post Office 1
  • 23 A Alresford Village Stores 1
  • 24 O Ocean Supermarket 1
  • 25 A A Willsher and Son 1
  • 26 T The Willows Convenience Store 1
  • 27 I I & A Butchers 1
  • 28 T The Beer Tent 1
  • 29 P Prettygate Convenience Store 1
  • 30 B Bonners Barn 1
  • 31 R Russell Stores 1
  • 32 H Hall Farm Shop 1
  • 33 Q Queen Street Continental Supermarket 1
  • 34 H Homeland logo Homeland 1
  • 35 Z Zebra News and Stores 1
  • 36 H Hill Top Off-Licence & Convenience Store 1
  • 37 S St Botolph's Street Convenience Store 1
  • 38 R Ragmarsh Farm Shop 1
  • 39 A Ardleigh Convenience Store 1
  • 40 T The Bargain Stores with Garden World 1
  • 41 H Hythe Convenience Store 1
  • 42 G General Store 1
  • 43 W Welcome Colchester 1
  • 44 C City Centre Convenience Store 1
  • 45 C Claydons Newsagents 1
  • 46 G Grape Tree 1
  • 47 J JD Stores 1
  • 48 M Momosh corner 1
  • 49 R Rowhedge convenience store 1
  • 50 K Kando 1

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