Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Newcastle

Iceflower tracks 393 stores from 129 grocery stores chains in Newcastle. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Waitrose & Partners and Holland & Barrett.

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
129
Tracked stores
393
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 Waitrose & Partners sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +9.8%
2 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners - +7.6%
3 H Holland & Barrett - +7.5%
4 L Lifestyle Express - +6.8%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI - +2.4%
6 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +2.2%
7 T Tesco logo Tesco ▲1 +1.2%
8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 -0.0%
9 I Iceland - -1.4%
10 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▼1 -5.9%
11 H Heron Foods - -6.9%
12 L Lidl logo Lidl - -9.6%
13 C Costcutter - -9.9%
14 A Asda logo Asda ▼1 -10.0%
  • ALDI
  • Tesco
  • Asda
  • Morrisons
  • Sainsbury's
  • Lidl
  • M&S Simply Food
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

393 tracked store locations in Newcastle. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • ALDI (24)
  • Tesco (31)
  • Asda (26)
  • Morrisons (19)
  • Sainsbury's (27)
  • Lidl (19)
  • M&S Simply Food (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 35
  • 2 T Tesco logo Tesco 31
  • 3 H Heron Foods 29
  • 4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 27
  • 5 A Asda logo Asda 26
  • 6 A ALDI logo ALDI 24
  • 7 I Iceland 21
  • 8 M Morrisons logo Morrisons 19
  • 9 L Lidl logo Lidl 19
  • 10 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food 10
  • 11 L Lifestyle Express 9
  • 12 F Farmfoods 7
  • 13 H Holland & Barrett 7
  • 14 C Costcutter 5
  • 15 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners 4
  • 16 G Go Local 2
  • 17 H Hutchinsons 2
  • 18 B Budgens 2
  • 19 E Eastfield Stores 2
  • 20 C Corner Shop 2
  • 21 T Tsang Foods 2
  • 22 S Shiremoor Convenience Store 1
  • 23 S Spend & Save 1
  • 24 M Mini Market Lviv 1
  • 25 B Brown & Vaughan 1
  • 26 H Heron Foods High Howdon 1
  • 27 G Gihan Food Store & Bakery 1
  • 28 M Maid Marrion 1
  • 29 B Balkan Store Newcastle 1
  • 30 S Stenhouse Kosher Bakery and Groceries 1
  • 31 E Elswick Convenience Store 1
  • 32 F Fenham Continental Foodstore 1
  • 33 C Carey news ltd 1
  • 34 C Craghead Convenience Store 1
  • 35 S SA Convenience Store 1
  • 36 F Finlay's Newsagents 1
  • 37 H Helen's Top Shop 1
  • 38 T The Store 1
  • 39 L Leadgate Convenience Store 1
  • 40 B Belsay Shop 1
  • 41 M Middles Superstore 1
  • 42 E EEF Gateshead 1
  • 43 S Simsam News 1
  • 44 S Sunlea Store 1
  • 45 U U Save Supermarket 1
  • 46 C Churchill St Discount Centre 1
  • 47 V Verne Newsagents 1
  • 48 H Handy Store 1
  • 49 R Right Price 1
  • 50 C Clayton Convenience Store 1

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