Growth
Staples against its category
The biggest tracked US office supply 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 Staples's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Staples | +2.7% |
| 2 | Office Depot | -2.5% |
| 3 | OfficeMax | -58.4% |
| 4 | Weinberger's Furniture | -15.8% |
| 5 | Burke Furniture | - |
| 6 | Fisher Hawaii | -41.0% |
| 7 | Penny Post | - |
| 8 | K & L Cards | - |
| 9 | School & Office Annex | - |
| 10 | Goods for the Study | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
1,161 tracked Staples locations across 45 US states. California, New York, and Pennsylvania hold 30% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 157
- New York 110
- Pennsylvania 77
- Florida 76
- New Jersey 61
- Massachusetts 56
- North Carolina 46
- Ohio 44
- Maryland 40
- Texas 38
- Arizona 36
- Virginia 32
- Connecticut 30
- Illinois 30
- Georgia 27
- Michigan 26
- Indiana 20
- New Hampshire 20
- South Carolina 19
- Washington 17
- Iowa 16
- Tennessee 16
- Oregon 15
- Kentucky 14
- Oklahoma 14
- Colorado 13
- Alabama 11
- Maine 11
- Missouri 9
- New Mexico 9
- Idaho 8
- Montana 8
- Rhode Island 7
- Utah 7
- Delaware 6
- Vermont 6
- Nevada 5
- West Virginia 5
- Kansas 4
- Arkansas 3
- Nebraska 3
- Wisconsin 3
- Wyoming 3
- Minnesota 2
- South Dakota 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Staples
Tracked chains Staples 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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