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List of current UK supermarket chains[edit]

Supermarket	Image	Founded/ came to UK	Owned by	Headquarters	Market share (%)			Number of stores	Types of stores	Notes
Supermarket	Image	Founded/ came to UK	Owned by	Headquarters	2021^[5]	2007^[6]	2000^[7]	Number of stores	Types of stores	Notes
Aldi UK		1990	Aldi Süd GmbH	Atherstone	8.0	2.6	1.5	960^[8]		No frills supermarket
Amazon Fresh UK		2021	Amazon	London	–	–	–	19^[9]		Cashierless store
Asda		1949	TDR Capital (45%) Zuber Issa & Mohsin Issa (45%) Walmart (10%)^[10]	Leeds	14.6	16.6	14.1	603	Asda Asda Supercentre Asda Superstore Asda Express Asda On the Move	Founded from the merger of Associated Dairies and the Asquith family owned Queens Supermarket.
Booths		1847	Booth Family and staff	Preston	–	–	–	28		Only operating in northern England
Co-op Food		1844	Various consumers’ co-operatives	Manchester	5.7	4.4	5.4	2,500^[11]	Co-op Co-op On the Go Nisa Express Nisa Local Nisa Extra Welcome	Identities shared by about 16 retail co-operatives, including the seven largest: Central Co-op Co-op East of England Co-op Lincolnshire Co-op Scotmid Southern Co-op Your Co-op See also: The Co-operative Group § List of corporate members
Farmfoods		1954	UK private company	Cumbernauld	–	0.5	–	340		Started as a meat processing business in Aberdeen in 1954.Primarily focused on Frozen foods Opened first retail outlet in the 1970s also in Aberdeen.
Heron Foods		1979	B&M	Melton	–	–	–	290	Heron Foods B&M Express	Primarily frozen foods; operates stores throughout the Midlands and the North. In 2012, Cooltrader was acquired by Heron foods,^[12] and all stores were rebranded as Heron Foods by 2017.^[13] Heron Foods was acquired by B&M in 2017, and since 2018, some stores have been rebranded as B&M Express.^[14]
Iceland		1970	UK private company	Deeside	2.3	1.6	2.8	1030	Iceland Iceland Local The Food Warehouse	First store opened at Oswestry, Shropshire in 1970
Lidl GB		1994	Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG	Kingston upon Thames	6.1	2.2	1.3	935^[15]		No frills supermarket
Marks & Spencer		1884	Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange	London	–	4.3^[16]	–	852		Clothing and food retailer
Morrisons		1899	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice^[17]	Bradford	9.8	11.2	4.9	542	Morrisons Morrisons Superstore Morrisons Daily	Fourth biggest supermarket in the UK. From 2011 to 2015 also operated M Local (later MyLocal) convenience stores.
Ocado		2002	Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange	Hatfield	1.8	–	–	0		Online only, product supply partnership with M&S.
Oseyo		2015	UK private company	Kingston upon Thames	0	–	–	11		Korean & Asian goods chain which also sells Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Indian and products from across Asia.
Proudfoot Supermarkets		1948	Family owned	Scarborough	–	–	–	5		Small independent chain operating in North Yorkshire.
Sainsbury’s		1869	Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange	London	15.5	16.2	17.9	1,430	Sainsbury’s Sainsbury’s Superstore Sainsbury’s Local
Tesco		1919	Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange	Welwyn Garden City	27.7	31.6	25.0	3,443 (UK)^[18]	Tesco Tesco Superstore Tesco Extra Tesco Express One Stop Budgens Londis Premier Shoprite^[19] Family Shopper	In May 2021, Tesco announced the rebranding of its Metro stores as either Tesco Express or Tesco. Budgens is a supermarket chain located in England and Wales, owned by Tesco following its 2018 purchase of Booker Group.^[20] Londis, Premier, and Family Shopper are symbol groups owned by Tesco with the purchase of Booker Group.
Waitrose & Partners		1904	John Lewis Partnership	Bracknell	5.0	3.9	2.7	344	Waitrose Little Waitrose John Lewis Foodhall Food, Fashion & Home Food & Home Welcome Break outlets (motorway services)