Growth
Half Price Books against its category
The biggest tracked US bookstores 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 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
B
Barnes & Noble
|
+2.5% |
| 2 |
E
Exchange
|
+0.9% |
| 3 |
B
Books-A-Million
|
-0.1% |
| 4 |
H
Hudson News
|
-0.1% |
| 5 |
H
Half Price Books
|
-3.8% |
| 6 |
D
Deseret Book
|
-14.1% |
| 7 |
2
2nd & Charles
|
+1.2% |
| 8 |
K
Kinokuniya
|
+1.9% |
| 9 |
N
Newbury Comics
|
+7.1% |
| 10 |
M
Mardel Christian & Education
|
-1.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
118 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.
V
Vision Center at Meijer
70
J
Jungle Jims
58
Jungle Jims
58
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