Durham and Bishop Auckland Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Greggs and Home Bargains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	G Greggs	▲1	+12.6%
2	H Home Bargains	-	+9.1%
3	A ALDI	-	+8.1%
4	H Heron Foods	▲2	+6.7%
5	B B&M Stores	▲1	+6.5%
6	C Costa Coffee	-	+5.9%
7	C Card Factory	-	+4.1%
8	B Boots	-	+3.8%
9	S Superdrug	▲2	+3.2%
10	T Tesco	-	+3.0%
11	S Subway	-	+2.6%
12	M Morrisons	▲1	+0.9%
13	S SPAR	-	+0.7%
14	S Savers	▲3	-0.9%
15	M McDonald's	-	-1.4%