Growth
Guitar Center against its category
The biggest tracked US specialty stores 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 Guitar Center's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
G
Guitar Center
|
-0.6% |
| 2 |
W
Walmart Garden Center
|
- |
| 3 |
P
Pinch A Penny Pool Patio Spa
|
-0.6% |
| 4 |
L
Leslie's Pool Supplies
|
-6.3% |
| 5 |
P
Party City
|
-75.9% |
| 6 |
W
Williams-Sonoma
|
+2.8% |
| 7 |
W
West Marine
|
-6.4% |
| 8 |
P
Phantom Fireworks
|
+0.4% |
| 9 |
A
Ashley Furniture HomeStore
|
-2.8% |
| 10 | M Maryland Lottery | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
223 tracked Guitar Center locations across 39 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 30
- Florida 20
- California 19
- Illinois 13
- Georgia 10
- North Carolina 9
- Pennsylvania 9
- New Jersey 8
- Arizona 7
- Michigan 7
- New York 7
- Ohio 7
- Tennessee 7
- Virginia 7
- Washington 6
- Colorado 5
- Indiana 5
- Maryland 5
- Oregon 5
- South Carolina 5
- Alabama 4
- Connecticut 3
- Kentucky 3
- Nevada 3
- Utah 3
- Iowa 2
- Missouri 2
- Alaska 1
- Arkansas 1
- Delaware 1
- Hawaii 1
- Idaho 1
- Kansas 1
- Louisiana 1
- Massachusetts 1
- Maine 1
- New Mexico 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Wisconsin 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Guitar Center
Tracked chains Guitar Center customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
A
Atomic Music
100
P
Parkway Music
53
S
Sweetwater
11
Sweetwater
11
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