Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

S SPAR

Iceflower tracks 1,548 SPAR stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #2 of 2,856 tracked UK convenience stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +2.2% 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
1,548
Regions
12
Category
Convenience Store
Category rank
#2

Growth

SPAR against its category

The biggest tracked UK convenience 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 SPAR's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 O One Stop -2.3%
2 S SPAR +2.2%
3 P Premier +4.0%
4 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local +0.7%
5 L Londis -
6 M McColl's -30.9%
7 A Applegreen logo Applegreen -8.7%
8 C Centra logo Centra +13.3%
9 B Best-one -0.4%
10 K KeyStore +6.3%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 104.5 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

1,548 tracked SPAR locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • Northern Ireland 243
  • Scotland 213
  • North West 197
  • South West 180
  • Wales 165
  • West Midlands 120
  • South East 90
  • East Midlands 86
  • East of England 84
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 84
  • North East 55
  • London 30
  • Other 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at SPAR

Tracked chains SPAR customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

C Centra logo Centra 100
P Power NI Energy 71
M Maxol 71
S SuperValu 65
Y YO! Antrim Massereene Tesco Kiosk 32
T Tesco Fuel 20
B Booths 16
G Greggs logo Greggs 14
M McDonald's logo McDonald's 13

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