Chain · United Kingdom · data through August 2026

S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's

Iceflower tracks 1,492 Sainsbury's stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #4 of 9,217 tracked UK grocery stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +5.4% 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
1,492
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 Q3 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 T Tesco logo Tesco -4.9%
2 A Asda logo Asda +2.3%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI +1.3%
4 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's +5.4%
5 M Morrisons logo Morrisons +14.2%
6 L Lidl logo Lidl -19.3%
7 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food +13.2%
8 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food +2.6%
9 W Waitrose & Partners logo Waitrose & Partners -12.5%
10 I Iceland logo Iceland +8.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 107.2 2024 Q3 2026 Q2

Store footprint

Store map

1,492 tracked Sainsbury's locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • London 387
  • South East 223
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 126
  • North West 119
  • East of England 114
  • South West 105
  • Scotland 104
  • East Midlands 97
  • West Midlands 90
  • North East 82
  • Wales 31
  • Northern Ireland 12
  • Other 2

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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