Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Edinburgh

Iceflower tracks 3,451 stores from 2,428 retail and consumer chains in Edinburgh. Lothian Buses grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Day-Today and Timpson.

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
2,428
Tracked stores
3,451
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. Lothian Buses and Day-Today sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lothian Buses logo Lothian Buses ▲2 +19.7%
2 D Day-Today ▲9 +19.6%
3 T Timpson logo Timpson ▲6 +19.1%
4 M McColl's logo McColl's ▲6 +17.6%
5 T Tesco Mobile logo Tesco Mobile ▲7 +17.4%
6 A All Bar One logo All Bar One ▲3 +16.8%
7 M Majestic Wine logo Majestic Wine ▲4 +14.7%
8 D Dundas Veterinary Group ▲3 +13.9%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲2 +12.8%
10 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett ▲5 +12.7%
11 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +11.6%
12 A Arnold Clark logo Arnold Clark ▲2 +11.5%
13 F Farmfoods logo Farmfoods ▲1 +10.9%
14 M Margiotta logo Margiotta ▲8 +10.7%
15 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx ▲2 +10.6%

Store footprint

Store map

3,451 tracked store locations in Edinburgh, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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