Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 145 stores from 75 hardware store chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Aubuchon Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harbor Freight Tools and Ace Hardware.

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
75
Tracked stores
145
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hardware store 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. Aubuchon Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Aubuchon Hardware logo Aubuchon Hardware - +16.8%
2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +14.4%
3 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - +1.8%
4 R Rocky's Ace Hardware logo Rocky's Ace Hardware - -0.4%
5 T True Value logo True Value - -15.4%
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Aubuchon Hardware
  • Rocky's Ace Hardware
  • Ace Hardware
  • Hingham Lumber
  • O'Connor Hardware
  • Moison Ace Hardware
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Harbor Freight Tools (15)
  • Aubuchon Hardware (21)
  • Rocky's Ace Hardware (11)
  • Ace Hardware (16)
  • Hingham Lumber (1)
  • O'Connor Hardware (1)
  • Moison Ace Hardware (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Aubuchon Hardware logo Aubuchon Hardware 21
  • 2 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware 16
  • 3 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools 15
  • 4 R Rocky's Ace Hardware logo Rocky's Ace Hardware 11
  • 5 T True Value logo True Value 8
  • 6 M Moison Ace Hardware logo Moison Ace Hardware 2
  • 7 R Rockler Woodworking and Hardware logo Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 2
  • 8 W Woodcraft logo Woodcraft 2
  • 9 M Moore Lumber & Hardware logo Moore Lumber & Hardware 2
  • 10 M Monnick Supply 1
  • 11 T True Value By Ideal 1
  • 12 W Winer Brothers Ace Hardware logo Winer Brothers Ace Hardware 1
  • 13 K Kitchen Views at National Lumber 1
  • 14 C Cataldo's Paint and Hardware 1
  • 15 N Norfolk Hardware Warehouse 1
  • 16 M Milton Village Hardware, Inc. 1
  • 17 T TW's Watson Family Hardware 1
  • 18 S Seacoast Power Equipment 1
  • 19 C Coastal Living Paint & Hardware 1
  • 20 R Radio Grove Hardware 1
  • 21 A Atlas True Value Hardware 1
  • 22 I Inman Square Hardware 1
  • 23 V Vanderhoof Hardware 1
  • 24 W Waban Hardware 1
  • 25 D Daddario Hardware & Supply 1
  • 26 S Shirley Hardware Corporation 1
  • 27 R Round's Hardware 1
  • 28 R Robinsons Hardware 1
  • 29 E E.G. Barker Lumber 1
  • 30 A Aubuchon 1
  • 31 2 2 Debis 1
  • 32 T Taylor Lumber 1
  • 33 F Family Hardware Corp. 1
  • 34 E Ez Pool Supplies 1
  • 35 T The Red Store 1
  • 36 D Danny's Hardware 1
  • 37 B Bruckmanns True Value Hardware 1
  • 38 M Main Street Hardware 1
  • 39 T Town Line Hardware 1
  • 40 C Chelmsford Lumber Co 1
  • 41 H Heritage Hardware 1
  • 42 O Onset Village Hardware 1
  • 43 D Dracut Hardware 1
  • 44 G Georgetown Building Supply and Stone Yard 1
  • 45 W Wills Hardware 1
  • 46 M Mahoney's Building Supply 1
  • 47 M Marblehead Hardware 1
  • 48 T The Portland Group 1
  • 49 R Reading Lumber 1
  • 50 R Ricci Lumber 1

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