Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Durham and Bishop Auckland

Iceflower tracks 185 stores from 88 grocery & convenience chains in Durham and Bishop Auckland. Sainsbury's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Co-op Food and Tesco.

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
88
Tracked stores
185
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. Sainsbury's and Co-op Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +16.5%
2 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +12.5%
3 T Tesco logo Tesco - -0.5%
4 I Iceland logo Iceland - -11.3%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI - -11.5%
6 G Go Local - -15.9%
7 S SPAR logo SPAR - -19.5%
8 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 -30.1%
9 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods - -31.5%

Store footprint

Store map

185 tracked store locations in Durham and Bishop Auckland, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (56)
  • Supermarkets (50)
  • Other grocery stores (28)
  • Discount Grocers (23)
  • Butcher Shop (10)
  • Liquor Store (4)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (4)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 18
  • 2 P Premier logo Premier 13
  • 3 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 10
  • 4 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 10
  • 5 M McColl's logo McColl's 8
  • 6 L Lidl logo Lidl 8
  • 7 S SPAR logo SPAR 7
  • 8 O One Stop logo One Stop 6
  • 9 A ALDI logo ALDI 6
  • 10 T Tesco logo Tesco 6
  • 11 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods 5
  • 12 I Iceland logo Iceland 3
  • 13 G Go Local 3
  • 14 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 2
  • 15 A Asda logo Asda 2
  • 16 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local 2
  • 17 B Best-one logo Best-one 2
  • 18 S Scotmid logo Scotmid 2
  • 19 C Costa Express logo Costa Express 2
  • 20 C Commercial Convenience Store 2
  • 21 R R. Chambers Butcher 1
  • 22 B Bishop Middleham Village Store 1
  • 23 H H. Taylor & Sons 1
  • 24 S Seafood Cornerhouse Sedgefield 1
  • 25 G Go Local Extra 1
  • 26 G Gaba Convenience Store 1
  • 27 O Ox Close Farm 1
  • 28 W West Cornforth Mini Market 1
  • 29 C Castle Bank Butchers 1
  • 30 E Eldon Lane Convenience Store 1
  • 31 D Deerness Valley Meats 1
  • 32 S Sedgefield Convenience Store 1
  • 33 M Mainsforth Convenience Store 1
  • 34 N News Express 1
  • 35 K Kash's Off Licence 1
  • 36 B British News and wine 1
  • 37 H Hunwick WMC 1
  • 38 G Gilesgate Convenience Store 1
  • 39 W Wensley Convenience Store 1
  • 40 E East Grange 1
  • 41 S Shergill Stores 1
  • 42 D Daily Fresh 1
  • 43 M Maan Brothers 1
  • 44 R R & B Convenience Store 1
  • 45 B Bainbridge Fresh Produce 1
  • 46 T Taylor's Butchers 1
  • 47 C Crook Off Licence Mini Market 1
  • 48 A Ali's Store 1
  • 49 G Grape Tree logo Grape Tree 1
  • 50 L Lallys Off Licence 1

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