Reading Retail & Consumer Trends 2026: Growth Rankings

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. Wickes and Home Bargains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	W Wickes	-	+19.7%
2	H Home Bargains	-	+18.6%
3	T Travelodge	▲1	+15.7%
4	N New Look	▲1	+15.2%
5	P Pets at Home	▲3	+15.1%
6	S Specsavers	▲3	+15.0%
7	H Holland & Barrett	▲1	+13.2%
8	C Costa Coffee	▲2	+12.6%
9	E Esso	-	+11.7%
10	M M&S Simply Food	▲2	+11.3%
11	S Sainsbury's	-	+10.5%
12	T The Range	-	+10.1%
13	C Costa Express	▲4	+9.5%
14	S Superdrug	▲3	+9.1%
15	T Toolstation UK	-	+8.3%