Trends · data through July 2026

Hardware Stores in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 65 stores from 16 hardware stores chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Tractor Supply Co. grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Aubuchon Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools.

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
16
Tracked stores
65
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hardware stores 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. Tractor Supply Co. and Aubuchon Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tractor Supply Co. logo Tractor Supply Co. - +1.7%
2 A Aubuchon Hardware logo Aubuchon Hardware - -1.5%
3 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - -2.4%
4 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - -5.1%
5 R Rocky's Ace Hardware logo Rocky's Ace Hardware - -5.8%
  • Tractor Supply Co.
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Aubuchon Hardware
  • Rocky's Ace Hardware
  • Ace Hardware
  • O'Connor Hardware
  • Hingham Lumber
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

65 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tractor Supply Co. (13)
  • Harbor Freight Tools (10)
  • Aubuchon Hardware (14)
  • Rocky's Ace Hardware (8)
  • Ace Hardware (9)
  • O'Connor Hardware (1)
  • Hingham Lumber (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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