Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Leicester

Iceflower tracks 627 stores from 300 grocery & convenience chains in Leicester. Best-one grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Holland & Barrett and Waitrose & Partners.

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
300
Tracked stores
627
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. Best-one and Holland & Barrett sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Best-one ▲2 +19.3%
2 H Holland & Barrett ▼1 +3.5%
3 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners ▲1 +3.0%
4 T Tesco logo Tesco - +2.2%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI - +1.7%
6 S SPAR - -4.9%
7 I Iceland - -5.3%
8 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - -6.4%
9 B Bargain Booze ▲1 -7.0%
10 L Lidl logo Lidl - -8.9%
11 A Asda logo Asda - -11.6%
12 O One Stop ▼1 -13.6%
13 M McColl's ▼1 -15.9%
14 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - -16.1%
15 P Premier ▼1 -18.3%

Store footprint

Store map

627 tracked store locations in Leicester, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (411)
  • Convenience Store (142)
  • Liquor Store (29)
  • Butcher Shop (21)
  • Warehouse Club (8)
  • Food or Beverage Store (7)
  • Farm (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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