Growth
Grainger against its category
The biggest tracked US business & industrial supplies 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 Grainger's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
F
Ferguson Plumbing Supply
|
+4.8% |
| 2 |
J
Johnstone Supply
|
+13.4% |
| 3 |
R
R.E. Michel Company
|
+5.3% |
| 4 |
B
Builders FirstSource
|
-13.1% |
| 5 |
Q
QXO
|
- |
| 6 |
S
Sunbelt Rentals
|
-23.6% |
| 7 |
B
Baker Distributing Company
|
-14.0% |
| 8 | W White Cap | -14.8% |
| 9 |
F
F.W. Webb Company
|
+10.6% |
| 10 | I IFA Country Store | -22.2% |
| 14 |
G
Grainger
|
- |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
140 tracked Grainger locations across 37 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 14
- California 11
- Florida 10
- Ohio 10
- Georgia 9
- Illinois 7
- Michigan 7
- North Carolina 5
- New York 5
- Pennsylvania 5
- Maryland 4
- Tennessee 4
- Virginia 4
- Washington 4
- Alabama 3
- Arizona 3
- Indiana 3
- New Jersey 3
- South Carolina 3
- Wisconsin 3
- Colorado 2
- Connecticut 2
- Iowa 2
- Kentucky 2
- Missouri 2
- Utah 2
- Alaska 1
- Delaware 1
- Hawaii 1
- Idaho 1
- Maine 1
- New Mexico 1
- Nevada 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Oregon 1
- West Virginia 1
- Wyoming 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Grainger
Tracked chains Grainger 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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