Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Sunderland

Iceflower tracks 277 stores from 119 grocery & convenience chains in Sunderland. Costa Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Morrisons and Family Shopper.

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
119
Tracked stores
277
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. Costa Express and Morrisons sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲1 +15.0%
2 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 +14.5%
3 F Family Shopper - +13.6%
4 O One Stop logo One Stop - +13.0%
5 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local - +11.9%
6 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +9.0%
7 B Best-one logo Best-one ▼1 +7.9%
8 G Go Local Extra - +7.4%
9 A Asda logo Asda - +5.4%
10 I Iceland logo Iceland ▲1 +5.0%
11 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▼1 -2.2%
12 H Heron Foods logo Heron Foods - -2.9%
13 S SPAR logo SPAR - -5.5%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI - -17.3%
15 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 -29.7%

Store footprint

Store map

277 tracked store locations in Sunderland, colored by category.

  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (108)
  • Supermarkets (57)
  • Discount Grocers (44)
  • Other grocery stores (35)
  • Butcher Shop (10)
  • Liquor Store (9)
  • Vending & Micro-Markets (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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