Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Southampton

Iceflower tracks 1,996 stores from 1,325 retail and consumer chains in Southampton. Welcome grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costa Coffee and Premier Inn.

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
1,325
Tracked stores
1,996
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. Welcome and Costa Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Welcome ▲2 +19.3%
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +17.9%
3 P Premier Inn ▲3 +15.4%
4 H Holland & Barrett ▲3 +14.8%
5 M Mountain Warehouse logo Mountain Warehouse ▲3 +13.8%
6 S Specsavers ▲3 +13.2%
7 W Wickes logo Wickes ▲1 +13.0%
8 K KFC logo KFC ▲5 +10.7%
9 W Waterstones logo Waterstones ▲1 +10.4%
10 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners ▲1 +9.0%
11 S Southampton General Hospital ▲1 +8.6%
12 S Savers ▲2 +7.6%
13 S SPAR ▲2 +7.4%
14 C CeX ▲3 +7.4%
15 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +7.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,996 tracked store locations in Southampton, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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