Growth
Books-A-Million 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 Books-A-Million'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
230 tracked Books-A-Million locations across 30 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 29
- Alabama 20
- Georgia 15
- South Carolina 14
- Tennessee 14
- North Carolina 12
- Ohio 12
- Pennsylvania 12
- Texas 12
- Virginia 12
- West Virginia 10
- Mississippi 9
- Indiana 7
- Louisiana 7
- Maryland 7
- Kentucky 5
- Arkansas 4
- Kansas 4
- Iowa 3
- Illinois 3
- Maine 3
- New Hampshire 3
- Connecticut 2
- Michigan 2
- Missouri 2
- New Jersey 2
- Wisconsin 2
- Minnesota 1
- Oklahoma 1
- South Dakota 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Books-A-Million
Tracked chains Books-A-Million customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
N
New London Commissary
100
Q
Quantico MCB Commissary
90
Quantico MCB Commissary
90
F
Fort Campbell Commissary
83
M
MARTIN’S
73
MARTIN’S
73
M
Martin's Fuel
67
Martin's Fuel
67
C
Charleston NWS Commissary
54
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