Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 106 stores from 59 hardware store chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Harbor Freight Tools grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Westlake Ace Hardware and Ace Hardware.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
59
Tracked stores
106
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hardware store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Harbor Freight Tools and Westlake Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +0.5%
2 W Westlake Ace Hardware logo Westlake Ace Hardware - +0.2%
3 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - -6.1%
4 T True Value logo True Value - -7.4%
5 R R.P. Lumber - -46.6%
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Ace Hardware
  • Handyman Hardware
  • Farm and Home Supply
  • Cotton's Ace Hardware
  • Rick's Ace Hardware
  • High Ridge Farm and Home Supply
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

106 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Harbor Freight Tools (13)
  • Ace Hardware (20)
  • Handyman Hardware (1)
  • Farm and Home Supply (1)
  • Cotton's Ace Hardware (1)
  • Rick's Ace Hardware (1)
  • High Ridge Farm and Home Supply (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware 20
  • 2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools 13
  • 3 R R.P. Lumber 10
  • 4 T True Value logo True Value 3
  • 5 W Westlake Ace Hardware logo Westlake Ace Hardware 3
  • 6 H High Ridge Farm and Home Supply 2
  • 7 M Metro Electric Supply 2
  • 8 B Buchheit of Centralia 2
  • 9 T Tonnies Hardware & Rental 1
  • 10 E Emerson Electric logo Emerson Electric 1
  • 11 S Scheidt Hardware 1
  • 12 D Don's Hardware 1
  • 13 J Jehling Hardware 1
  • 14 U U-Pick Hardwood Lumber 1
  • 15 O Overland Hardware Co. 1
  • 16 E Edele & Mertz Hardware 1
  • 17 T Thrifty Hardware & Home Center 1
  • 18 M Men's Modern General Store 1
  • 19 H Hopson Lumber Company 1
  • 20 B Buchheit of Greenville 1
  • 21 H Handyman Hardware 1
  • 22 W Waterloo Lumber Co. 1
  • 23 W Wright City Hardware 1
  • 24 W Waltco Tools Inc. 1
  • 25 E Elsberry Hardware 1
  • 26 N New Market Hardware 1
  • 27 K Kirkwood Hardware 1
  • 28 C City Plumbing Supply Company 1
  • 29 B Baragiola Hardware & Lumber 1
  • 30 G Gerald Home Center 1
  • 31 W Washington Lumber Do It Best 1
  • 32 N New Haven Lumber Do It Best 1
  • 33 S Shaw True Value Hardware 1
  • 34 R River City Hardware 1
  • 35 F Farm and Home Supply 1
  • 36 C Cotton's Ace Hardware 1
  • 37 R Rick's Ace Hardware logo Rick's Ace Hardware 1
  • 38 C Charlie's Farm and Home 1
  • 39 B Branneky True Value Hardware 1
  • 40 A ARCO Lawn Equipment logo ARCO Lawn Equipment 1
  • 41 N Norrenberns Lumber and Hardware 1
  • 42 S Schnarr's Hardware Company 1
  • 43 C Cardinal Building Materials 1
  • 44 R R & S Pool & Spa 1
  • 45 V Valley Park Elevator and Hardware 1
  • 46 H Hall Brothers Lumber Co. 1
  • 47 R Rockler Woodworking and Hardware logo Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 1
  • 48 C Chic Lumber And Hardware 1
  • 49 A Art's Lawn Mower Shop logo Art's Lawn Mower Shop 1
  • 50 H Hechler Hardware 1

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