Growth
Ace Hardware against its category
The biggest tracked US hardware store chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Ace Hardware's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
H
Harbor Freight Tools
|
+2.5% |
| 2 |
A
Ace Hardware
|
+4.1% |
| 3 |
T
True Value
|
-8.0% |
| 4 |
C
Curtis Lumber Co Inc
|
+8.4% |
| 5 |
A
Aubuchon Hardware
|
+9.5% |
| 6 | E Elder's Ace Hardware | -5.7% |
| 7 |
L
Lowe's ProServices
|
-8.4% |
| 8 | S Sneade's Ace Home Center | +0.4% |
| 9 | H Hartville Hardware | +7.1% |
| 10 | F Famous Supply | +4.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
2,331 tracked Ace Hardware locations across 50 US states and DC.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 169
- California 164
- Texas 126
- Illinois 124
- Michigan 121
- Ohio 95
- Georgia 89
- Wisconsin 89
- Colorado 80
- Pennsylvania 69
- Arizona 67
- North Carolina 67
- New York 65
- Tennessee 65
- Washington 64
- Minnesota 63
- Indiana 60
- Kentucky 52
- South Carolina 50
- Virginia 50
- Missouri 45
- Oregon 40
- Utah 38
- Alabama 33
- Iowa 33
- Kansas 33
- Idaho 32
- Oklahoma 32
- Maryland 26
- Montana 25
- New Jersey 25
- Massachusetts 22
- Wyoming 22
- Mississippi 21
- Connecticut 17
- Louisiana 17
- Nebraska 15
- Arkansas 14
- Hawaii 14
- New Mexico 12
- Nevada 12
- West Virginia 12
- Maine 11
- South Dakota 10
- Delaware 9
- Alaska 8
- North Dakota 7
- New Hampshire 5
- Rhode Island 5
- Vermont 4
- District of Columbia 3
Customer overlap
Who shops at Ace Hardware
Tracked chains Ace Hardware customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
D
Davis Food & Drug
80
S
Stewart's Market Castle Dale
70
U
Ute Petroleum
55
L
Lin's Marketplace
53
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