Growth
The Paper Shop against its category
The biggest tracked UK bookstores 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 The Paper Shop's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
W
WHSmith
|
-2.3% |
| 2 |
W
Waterstones
|
+8.2% |
| 3 | F Forbidden Planet | - |
| 4 | T The Kiosk | +13.6% |
| 5 | T Travelling Man | - |
| 6 | H Havant | -4.2% |
| 7 | N News 24 | -15.0% |
| 8 | S Sackville News | -33.3% |
| 9 | T The Paper Shop | +9.0% |
| 10 | B B P | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
11 tracked The Paper Shop locations across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- Yorkshire and The Humber 4
- London 2
- East of England 1
- North West 1
- Northern Ireland 1
- Scotland 1
- Wales 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at The Paper Shop
Tracked chains The Paper Shop 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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