Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in London

Iceflower tracks 4,875 stores from 2,354 grocery stores chains in London. Holland & Barrett grew fastest over the last year, ahead of M&S Foodhall and Payless.

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
2,354
Tracked stores
4,875
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. Holland & Barrett and M&S Foodhall sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Holland & Barrett - +19.5%
2 M M&S Foodhall - +17.7%
3 P Payless ▲1 +15.4%
4 T Tesco Express logo Tesco Express ▲6 +14.7%
5 E Elif Food Centre ▲2 +13.9%
6 F FreshGo ▲3 +12.5%
7 B Budgens - +11.6%
8 M M&S Food ▲4 +10.9%
9 W West 9 Food & Wine ▲2 +9.9%
10 S Seoul Plaza ▲5 +9.8%
11 M Mleczko ▲4 +9.8%
12 P PFC - +9.3%
13 I International Supermarket ▲2 +8.6%
14 W Way 2 Save - +7.9%
15 E Enfield Food Centre - +7.6%
  • Tesco
  • Sainsbury's
  • Asda
  • Lidl
  • M&S Simply Food
  • ALDI
  • Waitrose & Partners
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,875 tracked store locations in London. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tesco (519)
  • Sainsbury's (366)
  • Asda (66)
  • Lidl (123)
  • M&S Simply Food (155)
  • ALDI (61)
  • Waitrose & Partners (99)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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