Growth
Barnes & Noble against its category
The biggest tracked US bookstore 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 Barnes & Noble's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
B
Barnes & Noble
|
+0.3% |
| 2 |
B
Books-A-Million
|
+4.8% |
| 3 |
H
Half Price Books
|
-5.0% |
| 4 |
D
Deseret Book
|
+15.1% |
| 5 |
2
2nd & Charles
|
+9.0% |
| 6 |
K
Kinokuniya
|
-12.3% |
| 7 |
M
Mardel Christian & Education
|
-12.1% |
| 8 |
M
McKay Used Books & CD's
|
-10.0% |
| 9 |
J
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
|
-1.8% |
| 10 |
P
Powell's Books
|
-2.0% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
970 tracked Barnes & Noble locations across 50 US states and DC.
Tracked stores by state
- California 93
- Texas 80
- Florida 67
- New York 64
- Pennsylvania 43
- Virginia 38
- Illinois 36
- North Carolina 35
- New Jersey 32
- Ohio 30
- Georgia 29
- Michigan 29
- Washington 26
- Arizona 24
- Colorado 23
- Minnesota 23
- Kentucky 22
- Massachusetts 21
- Connecticut 20
- Maryland 18
- South Carolina 18
- Indiana 17
- Missouri 14
- Tennessee 14
- Louisiana 13
- Utah 12
- Wisconsin 12
- Alabama 11
- Iowa 10
- Oregon 10
- New Hampshire 7
- Nevada 7
- Delaware 6
- Kansas 6
- Arkansas 5
- Montana 5
- Nebraska 5
- New Mexico 5
- Oklahoma 5
- Hawaii 4
- Idaho 4
- Maine 4
- Mississippi 4
- North Dakota 4
- Rhode Island 4
- District of Columbia 3
- Alaska 2
- South Dakota 2
- West Virginia 2
- Vermont 1
- Wyoming 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Barnes & Noble
Tracked chains Barnes & Noble customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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