Growth
Harbor Freight Tools against its category
The biggest tracked US hardware store 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 Harbor Freight Tools's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbor Freight Tools | +2.0% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | +3.4% |
| 3 | True Value | -4.8% |
| 4 | Curtis Lumber Co Inc | +12.7% |
| 5 | Aubuchon Hardware | +11.2% |
| 6 | Elder's Ace Hardware | -6.8% |
| 7 | Sneade's Ace Home Center | +1.8% |
| 8 | Lowe's ProServices | -11.1% |
| 9 | Rockler Woodworking and Hardware | -7.8% |
| 10 | Westlake Ace Hardware | -2.9% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
1,638 tracked Harbor Freight Tools locations across 48 US states. California, Texas, and Florida hold 23% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 154
- Texas 132
- Florida 91
- New York 74
- Ohio 71
- Pennsylvania 68
- North Carolina 67
- Georgia 60
- Michigan 56
- Illinois 47
- Tennessee 47
- Indiana 42
- Virginia 41
- Arizona 38
- South Carolina 37
- Washington 37
- Missouri 35
- Oklahoma 35
- Alabama 33
- Louisiana 33
- Kentucky 30
- New Jersey 30
- Wisconsin 28
- Mississippi 27
- Oregon 27
- Colorado 23
- Massachusetts 23
- Minnesota 23
- Maryland 22
- Kansas 19
- New Mexico 19
- Arkansas 18
- Utah 18
- West Virginia 17
- Iowa 16
- Connecticut 15
- Nevada 14
- Nebraska 10
- New Hampshire 10
- Idaho 9
- Maine 9
- Delaware 7
- Montana 7
- North Dakota 5
- South Dakota 5
- Wyoming 4
- Vermont 3
- Rhode Island 2
Customer overlap
Who shops at Harbor Freight Tools
Tracked chains Harbor Freight Tools 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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