Growth
Barnes & Noble against its category
The biggest tracked US bookstore 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 Barnes & Noble's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes & Noble | +0.2% |
| 2 | Books-A-Million | +4.5% |
| 3 | Half Price Books | -4.1% |
| 4 | Deseret Book | +14.6% |
| 5 | 2nd & Charles | +8.8% |
| 6 | Mardel Christian & Education | -8.3% |
| 7 | Kinokuniya | -14.9% |
| 8 | McKay Used Books & CD's | -11.8% |
| 9 | Joseph-Beth Booksellers | -3.8% |
| 10 | Powell's Books | -3.0% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
961 tracked Barnes & Noble locations across 50 US states and DC. California, Texas, and Florida hold 25% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 93
- Texas 80
- Florida 67
- New York 65
- Pennsylvania 41
- Virginia 38
- Illinois 35
- North Carolina 35
- New Jersey 31
- Ohio 30
- Georgia 29
- Michigan 29
- Washington 26
- Arizona 23
- Colorado 23
- Minnesota 23
- Massachusetts 22
- Connecticut 20
- Kentucky 20
- Maryland 18
- South Carolina 18
- Indiana 17
- Missouri 14
- Tennessee 13
- Utah 12
- Wisconsin 12
- Alabama 11
- Louisiana 11
- Iowa 10
- Oregon 10
- New Hampshire 7
- Nevada 7
- Kansas 6
- Arkansas 5
- Delaware 5
- Montana 5
- Nebraska 5
- New Mexico 5
- Oklahoma 5
- Hawaii 4
- Idaho 4
- Maine 4
- Mississippi 4
- North Dakota 4
- Rhode Island 4
- District of Columbia 3
- Alaska 2
- South Dakota 2
- West Virginia 2
- Vermont 1
- Wyoming 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Barnes & Noble
Tracked chains Barnes & Noble 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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