Growth
Ace Hardware against its category
The biggest tracked US hardware stores 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 Ace Hardware's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
T
Tractor Supply Co.
|
+3.1% |
| 2 |
M
Menards
|
-3.9% |
| 3 |
H
Harbor Freight Tools
|
-2.4% |
| 4 |
A
Ace Hardware
|
+1.2% |
| 5 |
S
Sherwin-Williams
|
+12.2% |
| 6 |
T
True Value
|
-12.0% |
| 7 |
W
Wilco
|
+2.2% |
| 8 |
S
Standard Plumbing Supply
|
- |
| 9 |
T
Tractor Supply Company
|
-9.7% |
| 10 |
L
Lowes
|
-8.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
1,624 tracked Ace Hardware locations across 49 US states and DC.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 144
- California 106
- Illinois 101
- Michigan 95
- Texas 88
- Ohio 81
- North Carolina 66
- Colorado 62
- Georgia 62
- Indiana 53
- Pennsylvania 52
- Washington 51
- Arizona 49
- Wisconsin 46
- Virginia 45
- Tennessee 41
- New York 39
- Kentucky 38
- South Carolina 37
- Utah 35
- Idaho 29
- Oregon 29
- Alabama 25
- Maryland 23
- Iowa 22
- Missouri 20
- Montana 19
- Kansas 17
- Wyoming 14
- Massachusetts 13
- New Jersey 13
- Oklahoma 11
- Connecticut 9
- Delaware 9
- Hawaii 9
- Minnesota 9
- West Virginia 9
- Maine 7
- Nevada 7
- Arkansas 6
- New Mexico 6
- Mississippi 5
- Nebraska 4
- Rhode Island 4
- Alaska 3
- Louisiana 3
- District of Columbia 2
- North Dakota 2
- South Dakota 2
- Vermont 2
Customer overlap
Who shops at Ace Hardware
Tracked chains Ace Hardware customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
D
Davis Food & Drug
90
S
Stewart's Market Castle Dale
81
S
Stewart's Marketplace
64
L
Lin's Marketplace
63
U
Ute Petroleum
58
I
IFA Country Store
57
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