Growth
Half Price Books 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 Half Price Books'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
130 tracked Half Price Books locations across 19 US states.
Customer overlap
Who shops at Half Price Books
Tracked chains Half Price Books customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
J
Jungle Jims
43
Jungle Jims
43
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