Trends · data through September 2026

Retail Locations in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 1,227 stores from 1,123 retail location chains in the United Kingdom. Food bazaar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jims and The Television and Movie Store.

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 chains
1,123
Tracked stores
1,227
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail location chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Food bazaar and Jims sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food bazaar - +19.9%
2 J Jims - +10.3%
3 T The Television and Movie Store ▲2 +4.4%
4 L Lynas Food Outlet - -8.8%
5 E Evolution Vaping logo Evolution Vaping - -10.8%
6 H Home Store ▲2 -16.0%
7 D Dove House Hospice Shop ▼2 -33.6%
8 D Debenhams logo Debenhams ▼2 -35.2%
  • Unified Europe Ltd.
  • Bobbing Court
  • Barkat Foodstore Preston
  • TradePoint Swansea
  • JWD Eastbourne
  • Bexleyheath
  • MFG Esso Londis
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,227 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Unified Europe Ltd. (1)
  • Bobbing Court (1)
  • Barkat Foodstore Preston (1)
  • TradePoint Swansea (1)
  • JWD Eastbourne (1)
  • Bexleyheath (1)
  • MFG Esso Londis (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dove House Hospice Shop 9
  • 2 L Lynas Food Outlet 5
  • 3 H Home Store 5
  • 4 D Debenhams logo Debenhams 5
  • 5 H Hospice in the Weald logo Hospice in the Weald 4
  • 6 J Jims 4
  • 7 T The Television and Movie Store 4
  • 8 F Food bazaar 3
  • 9 E Evolution Vaping logo Evolution Vaping 3
  • 10 T Trade Price Outlet 2
  • 11 A Aspinal of London logo Aspinal of London 2
  • 12 C CES UK Car Parts 2
  • 13 L Longacres logo Longacres 2
  • 14 K Koko 2
  • 15 S SINGH Supermarket 2
  • 16 F Fashion logo Fashion 2
  • 17 S St Marcus Fine Foods 2
  • 18 M Midlands Golf 2
  • 19 A Allsorts News 2
  • 20 C Carmel Jane Photography logo Carmel Jane Photography 2
  • 21 H Honey & Ghee 2
  • 22 K Kubus Polish Shop 2
  • 23 T The Farmer's Arms 2
  • 24 K Kashmir Food Store 2
  • 25 D Delicje 2
  • 26 M Mega Store 2
  • 27 R Riverside Studios logo Riverside Studios 2
  • 28 S Ston 1
  • 29 P Pars Supermarket 1
  • 30 G Greenford 1
  • 31 L Langdon News 1
  • 32 W Winkys General Store 1
  • 33 S Smoke 'N' Vape 1
  • 34 S St Davids Hospice Care 1
  • 35 A Al Falah 1
  • 36 S Swansea Proms 1
  • 37 A APNA WATAN SUPER STORE 1
  • 38 W World's End, a Wyevale Garden Centre 1
  • 39 J Jeweller 1
  • 40 B Butcher Of Brogdale - Notcutts Garden Centre 1
  • 41 T TradePoint Peterhead 1
  • 42 D Destiny 1
  • 43 G Gloucester Quays Designer Outlet logo Gloucester Quays Designer Outlet 1
  • 44 O One Stop Pop Shop 1
  • 45 I InPost Locker - BP Bothwell Street 1
  • 46 D Dnata 1
  • 47 D De Praise Afro Caribbean Foods 1
  • 48 K Kol Tov 1
  • 49 G Goldwire Stores 1
  • 50 T Thistle Foods Ltd 1

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