Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Northampton

Iceflower tracks 1,301 stores from 1,010 retail and consumer chains in Northampton. The Works grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Boots and Travis Perkins.

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: 1,010
Tracked stores: 1,301
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. The Works and Boots sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	T The Works	▲1	+19.8%
2	B Boots	-	+19.8%
3	T Travis Perkins	▲1	+18.3%
4	T Timpson	-	+17.0%
5	S Sainsbury's	▲4	+16.7%
6	T The Red Lion	-	+15.4%
7	M M&S Simply Food	▲3	+13.7%
8	G Greggs	▲3	+12.8%
9	M Morrisons	▲4	+11.7%
10	K KFC	▲1	+10.2%
11	S Savers	-	+8.1%
12	S Screwfix	-	+8.1%
13	B B&M Stores	-	+7.8%
14	H Holland & Barrett	▲1	+5.4%
15	S Specsavers	▲1	+4.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,301 tracked store locations in Northampton, colored by category group.

Food & Drink (441)
Grocery & Convenience (275)
Retail (199)
Other (123)
Health & Beauty (105)
Leisure & Travel (89)
Gas & Auto (68)
Insurance (1)

Top tracked chains by store count

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