Growth
Candy Kitchen against its category
The biggest tracked US candy shop 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 Candy Kitchen's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | See's Candies | +12.1% |
| 2 | Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory | - |
| 3 | IT'SUGAR | -14.4% |
| 4 | Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop | +11.1% |
| 5 | Ghirardelli Ice Cream & Chocolate Shop | -0.5% |
| 6 | Malley's Chocolates | -1.3% |
| 7 | Sarris Candies | - |
| 8 | Gertrude Hawk Chocolates | +5.7% |
| 9 | Lindt | -14.9% |
| 10 | Candy Kitchen | -9.5% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
18 tracked Candy Kitchen locations across 4 US states. Maryland, Delaware, and Florida hold 94% of them.
Customer overlap
Who shops at Candy Kitchen
Tracked chains Candy Kitchen customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
Royal Farms
100
GIANT
84
Weis Markets
77
High's
75
Giant Food
64
Zelky's Beach Arcade
60
G & E Supermarket
54
Harpoon Hanna's
49
Dumser's Dairyland
49
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