Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Preston

Iceflower tracks 1,451 stores from 1,039 retail and consumer chains in Preston. M&S Simply Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Greggs and Superdrug.

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
1,039
Tracked stores
1,451
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. M&S Simply Food and Greggs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +19.0%
2 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲1 +14.7%
3 S Superdrug logo Superdrug - +13.1%
4 H Heron Foods - +12.4%
5 C Card Factory ▲1 +11.5%
6 B Boots logo Boots ▲1 +10.6%
7 N New Look logo New Look ▲2 +8.9%
8 P Premier ▲2 +8.8%
9 E Esso - +8.7%
10 H Halfords - +7.7%
11 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 +6.6%
12 S Sports Direct ▲3 +5.5%
13 T The Farmers Arms - +4.2%
14 H Home Bargains - +3.4%
15 T Tesco logo Tesco - +2.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,451 tracked store locations in Preston, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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