Chain · United Kingdom · data through August 2026

S Specsavers logo Specsavers

Iceflower tracks 805 Specsavers stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #2 of 48 tracked UK opticians chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +1.2% 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
805
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 Q3 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 V Vision Express logo Vision Express -0.9%
2 S Specsavers logo Specsavers +1.2%
3 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut +14.9%
4 O Opticians Direct logo Opticians Direct -24.9%
5 B Boots Optician -27.6%
6 J Jimmy Fairly -
7 S Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care logo Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care -1.0%
8 B Bloobloom +15.7%
9 B Brown's Opticians +9.4%
10 I instore opticians morrisons hillsborough -

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 99.8 2024 Q3 2026 Q2

Store footprint

Store map

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

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 115
  • London 98
  • East of England 82
  • North West 81
  • South West 75
  • West Midlands 68
  • Scotland 66
  • East Midlands 62
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 62
  • Wales 44
  • North East 33
  • Northern Ireland 19

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 logo B&M Stores 56
C Clarion Housing Group logo Clarion Housing Group 45
T The Range logo The Range 43
A Asda logo Asda 42
I Iceland logo Iceland 41
S Superdrug logo Superdrug 39

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