Stoke-on-Trent Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

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. Greggs and New Look sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	G Greggs	▲4	+19.5%
2	N New Look	▲5	+15.8%
3	S Specsavers	▲2	+14.2%
4	T TK Maxx	▲3	+13.9%
5	A Argos	▲3	+13.6%
6	L Lidl	-	+9.9%
7	S Sainsbury's	-	+6.1%
8	B Boots	-	+5.7%
9	S Shell	▲1	+5.3%
10	T Toby Carvery	▲5	+4.1%
11	T The Works	▲1	+3.1%
12	H Home Bargains	▲1	+2.4%
13	E Esso	-	+2.3%
14	S Sports Direct	▲2	+1.2%
15	M M&S Simply Food	▲1	+1.2%