Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Southampton

Iceflower tracks 440 stores from 165 grocery & convenience chains in Southampton. Best-one grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Iceland and M&S Simply Food.

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
165
Tracked stores
440
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience 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. Best-one and Iceland sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Best-one logo Best-one ▲1 +14.7%
2 I Iceland logo Iceland - +11.2%
3 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +9.7%
4 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food - +9.6%
5 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +8.9%
6 A Asda logo Asda ▲2 +8.3%
7 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - +7.5%
8 T The Co-operative Food ▲1 +7.1%
9 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +5.8%
10 M McColl's logo McColl's - +0.6%
11 S SPAR logo SPAR - -1.3%
12 A ALDI logo ALDI - -2.0%
13 G Grape Tree logo Grape Tree ▲2 -2.2%
14 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼2 -7.8%
15 O One Stop logo One Stop - -9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

440 tracked store locations in Southampton, colored by category.

  • Supermarkets (157)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (124)
  • Other grocery stores (51)
  • Discount Grocers (27)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (23)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (14)
  • Butcher Shop (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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