Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

S Specsavers

Iceflower tracks 608 Specsavers stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #2 of 32 tracked UK opticians chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +5.5% 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
608
Regions
12
Category
Optician
Category rank
#2

Growth

Specsavers against its category

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

# Chain YoY share
1 V Vision Express -2.9%
2 S Specsavers +5.5%
3 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut -
4 O Opticians Direct -12.0%
5 B Boots Optician -25.4%
6 J Jimmy Fairly +3.9%
7 S Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care -
8 B Blackham -35.5%
9 T The Glasses Factory -34.4%
10 B Batty&Dexter Opticians Liverpool -48.5%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 98.1 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

608 tracked Specsavers locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 88
  • London 72
  • North West 69
  • East of England 59
  • South West 57
  • West Midlands 52
  • East Midlands 49
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 49
  • Scotland 45
  • Wales 33
  • North East 23
  • Northern Ireland 12

Customer overlap

Who shops at Specsavers

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

S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's 100
B B&M Stores 55
C Clarion Housing Group 47
A Asda logo Asda 42
T The Range 41
I Iceland 40
S Superdrug logo Superdrug 40

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