Growth
Aéropostale against its category
The biggest tracked US teen & young adult apparel 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 Aéropostale's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Eagle | +0.5% |
| 2 | Buckle | +1.1% |
| 3 | Hot Topic | +9.3% |
| 4 | Hollister Co. | -5.5% |
| 5 | PacSun | -3.9% |
| 6 | Spencer's | -1.9% |
| 7 | Zumiez | -6.0% |
| 8 | Aéropostale | +4.1% |
| 9 | Garage | - |
| 10 | Tillys | +1.9% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
413 tracked Aéropostale locations across 44 US states. Texas, Florida, and California hold 30% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 43
- Florida 41
- California 40
- New York 22
- Pennsylvania 22
- New Jersey 18
- Ohio 17
- Georgia 16
- North Carolina 15
- Illinois 14
- Indiana 13
- Massachusetts 10
- Virginia 10
- Colorado 9
- Maryland 9
- Michigan 9
- Arizona 7
- Connecticut 7
- Tennessee 7
- Washington 7
- Wisconsin 7
- South Carolina 6
- Kentucky 5
- Minnesota 5
- New Hampshire 5
- Delaware 4
- Louisiana 4
- Nevada 4
- Iowa 3
- Kansas 3
- Maine 3
- Missouri 3
- Mississippi 3
- New Mexico 3
- Oregon 3
- Utah 3
- Alabama 2
- Arkansas 2
- Idaho 2
- Oklahoma 2
- Rhode Island 2
- Nebraska 1
- South Dakota 1
- West Virginia 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Aéropostale
Tracked chains Aéropostale customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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