Supermarket store numbers

Supermarkets have very varying number of stores across the country

1. Spar – 2,600

2. Co-op – 2,200

3. Tesco – 2,109

4. Somerfield – 900 (taken over)

5. Sainsburys – 785

6. Iceland – 660 (51 stores bought from Woolworth news released 09/01/09 read bbc articles)

7. Lidi – 500

8. Safeway – 479 (taken over)

9. M & S – 400 (25 stores closing news released 07/01/09 read bbc article)

10. Aldi – 382

11. Morrisons – 375

12. Asda – 280

13. Netto – 194

Scourced from Wikipedia and supermarket own websites