Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every Arizona metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Harbor Freight Tools leads in 3 metro areas, Ace Hardware in 2 metro areas, and Basic American Supply in 1 metro area. Against their share in Arizona as a whole, Ace Hardware stands out in 3 metro areas, Harbor Freight Tools in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Tucson, AZ 2× · Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ 0.3× · Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ 1.7×
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Harbor Freight Tools
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ 1.1× · Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ 0.6×
Not enough tracked stores: Flagstaff, AZ
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Yuma, AZ
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in 3 metro areas
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ · Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ · Yuma, AZ
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Ace Hardware
#1 in 2 metro areas
Tucson, AZ · Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ
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Basic American Supply
#1 in Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
Not enough tracked stores: Flagstaff, AZ
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Arizona compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Arizona as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Arizona and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Arizona is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
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 Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +2.1% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | +1.3% |
| 3 | Paul's Ace Hardware | - | -7.3% |
| 4 | Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. | - | -9.3% |
| 5 | Sprinkler World | - | -12.1% |
| 6 | True Value | - | -18.8% |
| 7 | Sun Valley Supply | - | -61.0% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Ruggiero's Ace Hardware
- Basic American Supply
- Paul's Ace Hardware
- True Value
- Sprinkler World
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
249 tracked store locations in Arizona. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 130 of the 249 stores (52%); 108 of the 117 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (38)
- Ace Hardware (74)
- Ruggiero's Ace Hardware (1)
- Basic American Supply (1)
- Paul's Ace Hardware (4)
- True Value (9)
- Sprinkler World (4)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 74
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 38
- 3 True Value 9
- 4 Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. 5
- 5 Paul's Ace Hardware 4
- 6 Sprinkler World 4
- 7 Sun Valley Supply 3
- 8 Alternative Hose 2
- 9 Mobile Home Depot 2
- 10 Junk N the Trunk 1
- 11 Yuma Farm and Home Supply 1
- 12 Piping Alloys 1
- 13 Redding's Hardware & Goods LLC 1
- 14 The Rusty Nail Hardware and Feed 1
- 15 Ram Pipe and Supply 1
- 16 A & M Nut & Bolt 1
- 17 Scottsdale Custom Building Materials 1
- 18 Absolute Industrial Supply 1
- 19 Bonnets Stems and Accessories 1
- 20 Wellton Hardware Store 1
- 21 Precision Outdoor Power 1
- 22 McKays True Value 1
- 23 Walt's Hardware 1
- 24 Southern AZ Steel & Supply 1
- 25 Colorado River Building Materials 1
- 26 Mohave Rancho Lumber 1
- 27 AMES Tools 1
- 28 LG Paint Store 1
- 29 Thunder Mountain Metal Sales 1
- 30 Los Martinez Home Improvement & Tools 1
- 31 Direct Tools Factory Outlet 1
- 32 Apache Hardware 1
- 33 Echols' Saw & Supply 1
- 34 Superior Steel Supply 1
- 35 Vendor's Outlet 1
- 36 Unicoa Industrial Supply 1
- 37 Pieh Tool Company 1
- 38 Discount Tools 1
- 39 Brown's Welding and Supplies 1
- 40 Bob's Hometown Hardware 1
- 41 Mesa Pipe & Supply 1
- 42 Black Diamond Supply 1
- 43 Independent Electric 1
- 44 Safford Builders Supply 1
- 45 Barney's Bargain Barn 1
- 46 AMW Construction Supply 1
- 47 Cactus Lock And Key 1
- 48 Fred's Bolts Nuts & Tools 1
- 49 Mammoth Lumber 1
- 50 Old Pueblo 1
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