Chain · United Kingdom · data through August 2026

S SPAR logo SPAR

Iceflower tracks 1,652 SPAR stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 3,199 tracked UK convenience stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -1.1% 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
1,652
Regions
12
Category
Convenience Store
Category rank
#1

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 Q3 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S SPAR logo SPAR -1.1%
2 O One Stop logo One Stop -7.9%
3 P Premier logo Premier +8.9%
4 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local +0.2%
5 L Londis logo Londis +7.0%
6 M McColl's logo McColl's -3.9%
7 A Applegreen logo Applegreen -26.4%
8 C Centra logo Centra +7.0%
9 B Best-one logo Best-one +6.9%
10 K KeyStore logo KeyStore -1.8%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 99.2 2024 Q3 2026 Q2

Store footprint

Store map

1,652 tracked SPAR locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • Northern Ireland 254
  • Scotland 222
  • North West 213
  • South West 195
  • Wales 175
  • West Midlands 131
  • South East 95
  • East of England 93
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 90
  • East Midlands 89
  • North East 59
  • London 34
  • Other 2

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
M Maxol logo Maxol 69
P Power NI Energy logo Power NI Energy 68
S SuperValu logo SuperValu 64
G Go 48
Y YO! Antrim Massereene Tesco Kiosk 32
T Tesco Fuel logo Tesco Fuel 21
B Booths logo Booths 15

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