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. Aubuchon Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aubuchon Hardware | - | +18.1% |
| 2 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +14.3% |
| 3 | Ace Hardware | - | +2.5% |
| 4 | Rocky's Ace Hardware | - | +0.4% |
| 5 | True Value | - | -19.2% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Aubuchon Hardware
- Rocky's Ace Hardware
- Ace Hardware
- Hingham Lumber
- O'Connor Hardware
- Jackson Lumber
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
150 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 75 of the 150 stores (50%); 69 of the 77 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 5% across Massachusetts.
- Harbor Freight Tools (14)
- Aubuchon Hardware (21)
- Rocky's Ace Hardware (11)
- Ace Hardware (21)
- Hingham Lumber (1)
- O'Connor Hardware (1)
- Jackson Lumber (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Aubuchon Hardware 21
- 2 Ace Hardware 21
- 3 Harbor Freight Tools 14
- 4 Rocky's Ace Hardware 11
- 5 True Value 8
- 6 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 2
- 7 Woodcraft 2
- 8 Moore Lumber & Hardware 2
- 9 Monnick Supply 1
- 10 True Value By Ideal 1
- 11 Kitchen Views at National Lumber 1
- 12 Winer Brothers Ace Hardware 1
- 13 Lowe’s Pro 1
- 14 Cataldo's Paint and Hardware 1
- 15 TW's Watson Family Hardware 1
- 16 Radio Grove Hardware 1
- 17 Round's Hardware 1
- 18 Coastal Living Paint & Hardware 1
- 19 Atlas True Value Hardware 1
- 20 Inman Square Hardware 1
- 21 Waban Hardware 1
- 22 Vanderhoof Hardware 1
- 23 Dracut Hardware 1
- 24 Daddario Hardware & Supply 1
- 25 Shirley Hardware Corporation 1
- 26 Tri-City Tool Crib 1
- 27 Robinsons Hardware 1
- 28 E.G. Barker Lumber 1
- 29 2 Debis 1
- 30 Seacoast Power Equipment 1
- 31 Taylor Lumber 1
- 32 Family Hardware Corp. 1
- 33 J & W One Lewis Wharf 1
- 34 Shattuck Heights Hardware 1
- 35 Danny's Hardware 1
- 36 Bruckmanns True Value Hardware 1
- 37 Main Street Hardware 1
- 38 Heritage Hardware 1
- 39 Town Line Hardware 1
- 40 Chelmsford Lumber Co 1
- 41 Milton Village Hardware, Inc. 1
- 42 Onset Village Hardware 1
- 43 Norfolk Hardware Warehouse 1
- 44 Ricci Lumber 1
- 45 Woodcraft of Boston 1
- 46 Mahoney's Building Supply 1
- 47 Wills Hardware 1
- 48 Marblehead Hardware 1
- 49 The Portland Group 1
- 50 Reading Lumber 1
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