Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Iceflower tracks 1,648 stores from 1,115 retail and consumer chains in Stoke-on-Trent. Toolstation UK grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costa Coffee and The Works.

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
1,115
Tracked stores
1,648
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. Toolstation UK and Costa Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Toolstation UK logo Toolstation UK ▲2 +19.2%
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲3 +17.2%
3 T The Works logo The Works ▲1 +16.7%
4 T The Roebuck - +16.1%
5 P Post Office logo Post Office ▲5 +15.8%
6 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲2 +15.7%
7 H Home Bargains ▲2 +14.5%
8 F Farmfoods logo Farmfoods ▲4 +13.6%
9 L Londis logo Londis ▲1 +12.6%
10 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲1 +11.8%
11 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +11.3%
12 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲2 +10.8%
13 B Boots logo Boots - +9.8%
14 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 +9.0%
15 S Specsavers logo Specsavers ▲2 +9.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,648 tracked store locations in Stoke-on-Trent, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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