Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's

Iceflower tracks 1,494 Sainsbury's stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #4 of 8,128 tracked UK grocery stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -4.1% over the last year.

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 stores
1,494
Regions
12
Category
Grocery Store
Category rank
#4

Growth

Sainsbury's against its category

The biggest tracked UK grocery stores chains 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 Sainsbury's's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 T Tesco logo Tesco +0.2%
2 A Asda logo Asda -6.4%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI +4.2%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's -4.1%
5 L Lidl logo Lidl -2.1%
6 M Morrisons logo Morrisons +5.0%
7 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food +8.1%
8 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food -7.3%
9 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners +2.3%
10 I Iceland -3.0%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 104.8 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

1,494 tracked Sainsbury's locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • London 385
  • South East 223
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 126
  • North West 118
  • East of England 114
  • Scotland 104
  • South West 104
  • East Midlands 99
  • West Midlands 92
  • North East 82
  • Wales 32
  • Northern Ireland 12
  • Other 3

Customer overlap

Who shops at Sainsbury's

Tracked chains Sainsbury's 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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