Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Lincoln

Iceflower tracks 115 stores from 40 grocery stores chains in Lincoln. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Heron Foods.

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
40
Tracked stores
115
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. M&S Simply Food and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +14.3%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +11.0%
3 H Heron Foods - +7.6%
4 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +5.5%
5 L Lincolnshire Co-op - +5.4%
6 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 +4.8%
7 I Iceland - +3.9%
8 H Holland & Barrett - +3.8%
9 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - +1.5%
10 T Tesco logo Tesco - +0.9%
11 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▼1 -5.3%
12 L Lidl logo Lidl - -7.6%
13 A Asda logo Asda - -8.2%
  • Tesco
  • Asda
  • Lidl
  • ALDI
  • Morrisons
  • Sainsbury's
  • M&S Simply Food
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

115 tracked store locations in Lincoln. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tesco (13)
  • Asda (5)
  • Lidl (6)
  • ALDI (7)
  • Morrisons (8)
  • Sainsbury's (6)
  • M&S Simply Food (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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