Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Medway

Iceflower tracks 470 stores from 217 grocery & convenience chains in Medway. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Co-op Food 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
217
Tracked stores
470
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. M&S Simply Food and Co-op Food sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +18.4%
2 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▲1 +17.4%
3 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - +17.4%
4 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +15.3%
5 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +13.9%
6 O One Stop logo One Stop - +13.7%
7 I Iceland logo Iceland - +13.6%
8 L Londis logo Londis - +12.8%
9 A Asda logo Asda - +8.9%
10 S SPAR logo SPAR - +5.6%
11 M McColl's logo McColl's - -5.0%
12 T Tesco logo Tesco - -20.9%
13 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼2 -28.6%

Store footprint

Store map

470 tracked store locations in Medway, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (137)
  • Supermarkets (119)
  • Other grocery stores (89)
  • Discount Grocers (25)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (22)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (21)
  • Butcher Shop (16)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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