Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Southend

Iceflower tracks 242 stores from 145 retail chains in Southend. Screwfix grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Works and B&M Stores.

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
145
Tracked stores
242
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Screwfix and The Works sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲3 +11.8%
2 T The Works - +8.3%
3 B B&M Stores - +7.0%
4 S Savers ▲1 +5.0%
5 P Peacocks - +4.6%
6 H Home Bargains - +2.3%
7 T Toolstation UK - +1.2%
8 N Next - +0.6%
9 R River Island logo River Island - -2.3%
10 W WHSmith logo WHSmith ▲1 -4.4%
11 P Pets at Home logo Pets at Home ▼1 -6.5%
12 A Argos ▼1 -7.4%
13 C Card Factory ▲1 -8.3%
14 S Sports Direct ▲1 -10.9%
15 P Poundland logo Poundland ▼1 -16.0%
  • Discount Store
  • Clothing Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Pet Store
  • Bookstore
  • Hardware Store
  • Gift Shop
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

242 tracked store locations in Southend, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (37)
  • Clothing Store (29)
  • Specialty Store (19)
  • Pet Store (16)
  • Bookstore (15)
  • Hardware Store (13)
  • Gift Shop (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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