Growth
Books-A-Million 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 Books-A-Million'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
211 tracked Books-A-Million locations across 29 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 28
- Alabama 16
- Georgia 15
- Tennessee 14
- South Carolina 13
- North Carolina 11
- Ohio 11
- Pennsylvania 11
- Texas 11
- Virginia 11
- West Virginia 10
- Mississippi 9
- Indiana 7
- Louisiana 6
- Maryland 6
- Kentucky 5
- Arkansas 3
- Iowa 3
- Illinois 3
- Maine 3
- Kansas 2
- Michigan 2
- Missouri 2
- New Hampshire 2
- New Jersey 2
- Wisconsin 2
- Connecticut 1
- Oklahoma 1
- South Dakota 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Books-A-Million
Tracked chains Books-A-Million 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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