Sheffield 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. Ascona and Sports Direct sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	A Ascona	▲6	+19.6%
2	S Sports Direct	▲4	+17.9%
3	G Greggs	▲4	+15.3%
4	P Post Office	▲9	+10.3%
5	G GO Outdoors	▲6	+10.2%
6	S Screwfix	▲4	+9.2%
7	S Specsavers	▲1	+8.9%
8	J JD Sports	▲2	+7.7%
9	C Costa Express	▲5	+5.8%
10	B Burger King	▲4	+5.8%
11	M M&S Simply Food	▲2	+4.1%
12	T TK Maxx	▲1	+3.0%
13	S SPAR	▲4	+2.9%
14	M Morrisons	▲2	+0.4%
15	A Argos	▲3	+0.4%