Growth
Ace Hardware against its category
The biggest tracked US hardware store 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 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbor Freight Tools | +2.0% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | +3.4% |
| 3 | True Value | -4.8% |
| 4 | Curtis Lumber Co Inc | +12.7% |
| 5 | Aubuchon Hardware | +11.2% |
| 6 | Elder's Ace Hardware | -6.8% |
| 7 | Sneade's Ace Home Center | +1.8% |
| 8 | Lowe's ProServices | -11.1% |
| 9 | Rockler Woodworking and Hardware | -7.8% |
| 10 | Westlake Ace Hardware | -2.9% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
2,602 tracked Ace Hardware locations across 50 US states and DC. California, Florida, and Michigan hold 21% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 205
- Florida 191
- Michigan 150
- Texas 137
- Illinois 135
- Ohio 104
- Georgia 97
- Wisconsin 97
- Colorado 82
- New York 78
- Arizona 74
- Indiana 74
- Pennsylvania 74
- Tennessee 73
- North Carolina 72
- Washington 68
- Minnesota 63
- Kentucky 59
- South Carolina 51
- Virginia 50
- Missouri 46
- Oregon 41
- Utah 39
- Alabama 36
- Kansas 35
- Oklahoma 35
- Idaho 34
- Iowa 33
- Massachusetts 32
- Maryland 27
- Montana 27
- Arkansas 25
- Connecticut 24
- New Jersey 24
- Mississippi 22
- Wyoming 22
- Louisiana 16
- Hawaii 15
- Maine 15
- Nebraska 15
- New Mexico 15
- Nevada 15
- West Virginia 14
- South Dakota 12
- Vermont 10
- Delaware 9
- Alaska 7
- North Dakota 7
- Rhode Island 7
- New Hampshire 6
- District of Columbia 3
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.
The Home Depot
100
Maverik
83
Davis Food & Drug
80
Stewart's Market Castle Dale
66
Stewart's Marketplace
57
Ute Petroleum
53
Menards
53
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