Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Wakefield and Castleford

Iceflower tracks 241 stores from 168 retail chains in Wakefield and Castleford. Savers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Card Factory and Peacocks.

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
168
Tracked stores
241
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Savers and Card Factory sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Savers logo Savers - +14.0%
2 C Card Factory logo Card Factory - +11.7%
3 P Peacocks logo Peacocks - +10.4%
4 H Home Bargains - +6.8%
5 C Cardzone - +6.6%
6 N Next logo Next ▲1 +3.4%
7 R River Island logo River Island - +1.9%
8 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -1.0%
9 C Currys logo Currys - -7.4%
10 P Poundland logo Poundland ▼1 -8.8%
11 T Toolstation UK logo Toolstation UK - -10.3%
12 B B&M Stores logo B&M Stores - -12.1%
13 T Trespass logo Trespass - -12.3%
14 S Sports Direct logo Sports Direct - -15.6%
  • Gift Shop
  • Bookstore
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Discount Off-Price Stores
  • Discount Store
  • Specialty Store
  • Fast Fashion
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

241 tracked store locations in Wakefield and Castleford, colored by category.

  • Gift Shop (18)
  • Bookstore (16)
  • Sporting Goods Store (15)
  • Discount Off-Price Stores (15)
  • Discount Store (11)
  • Specialty Store (11)
  • Fast Fashion (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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