Growth
Barnes & Noble against its category
The biggest tracked US bookstores 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 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
B
Barnes & Noble
|
+2.5% |
| 2 |
E
Exchange
|
+0.6% |
| 3 |
B
Books-A-Million
|
-0.2% |
| 4 |
H
Hudson News
|
-1.6% |
| 5 |
H
Half Price Books
|
-3.7% |
| 6 |
D
Deseret Book
|
-13.8% |
| 7 |
2
2nd & Charles
|
+1.2% |
| 8 |
K
Kinokuniya
|
+2.2% |
| 9 |
N
Newbury Comics
|
+7.3% |
| 10 |
M
Mardel Christian & Education
|
-1.6% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
878 tracked Barnes & Noble locations across 50 US states and DC.
Tracked stores by state
- California 79
- Texas 78
- Florida 65
- New York 42
- Pennsylvania 40
- Virginia 38
- Illinois 36
- North Carolina 35
- Georgia 29
- Michigan 29
- New Jersey 29
- Ohio 29
- Washington 26
- Arizona 22
- Colorado 22
- Maryland 18
- Indiana 17
- Massachusetts 17
- South Carolina 17
- Connecticut 15
- Kentucky 15
- Minnesota 15
- Missouri 12
- Utah 12
- Alabama 11
- Tennessee 11
- Wisconsin 11
- Oregon 10
- Louisiana 8
- Iowa 7
- Nevada 7
- Kansas 6
- New Hampshire 6
- Arkansas 5
- Delaware 5
- Montana 5
- Nebraska 5
- New Mexico 5
- Oklahoma 5
- Hawaii 4
- Idaho 4
- Maine 4
- Mississippi 4
- Rhode Island 4
- District of Columbia 3
- North Dakota 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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