Growth
M&S Simply Food against its category
The biggest tracked UK upscale & natural grocers by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks M&S Simply Food's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
M
M&S Simply Food
|
+14.0% |
| 2 |
W
Waitrose & Partners
|
-20.8% |
| 3 |
B
Booths
|
+4.7% |
| 4 | M M&S Foodhall | +15.7% |
| 5 |
W
Whole Foods Market
|
- |
| 6 |
G
Grape Tree
|
+2.4% |
| 7 | A Abel & Cole Limited | +3.7% |
| 8 | M MFG Viking-Londis | - |
| 9 |
F
Fresh Market
|
- |
| 10 | M Mir Food Centre2 | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
898 tracked M&S Simply Food locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- London 158
- South East 139
- East of England 104
- North West 89
- Scotland 80
- South West 71
- Yorkshire and The Humber 65
- West Midlands 61
- East Midlands 49
- Wales 30
- North East 28
- Northern Ireland 22
- Other 2
Customer overlap
Who shops at M&S Simply Food
Tracked chains M&S Simply Food customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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