Growth
West Marine against its category
The biggest tracked US specialty stores 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 West Marine's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q3 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
G
Guitar Center
|
+4.3% |
| 2 |
L
Leslie's Pool Supplies
|
-3.5% |
| 3 |
A
Ashley Furniture HomeStore
|
+5.7% |
| 4 |
P
Pinch A Penny Pool Patio Spa
|
-0.5% |
| 5 |
W
Walmart Garden Center
|
-10.9% |
| 6 |
W
Williams-Sonoma
|
+11.9% |
| 7 |
W
West Marine
|
-1.3% |
| 8 |
P
Phantom Fireworks
|
- |
| 9 |
O
Ohio Lottery
|
+3.5% |
| 10 |
M
Maryland Lottery
|
- |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
244 tracked West Marine locations across 35 US states and 1 territory.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 63
- California 25
- Michigan 13
- Washington 13
- South Carolina 12
- Maryland 11
- Massachusetts 10
- North Carolina 10
- New York 10
- New Jersey 9
- Virginia 8
- Texas 7
- Connecticut 6
- Ohio 6
- Alabama 4
- Illinois 4
- Georgia 3
- Rhode Island 3
- Wisconsin 3
- Arizona 2
- Delaware 2
- Louisiana 2
- Maine 2
- Missouri 2
- New Hampshire 2
- Tennessee 2
- Alaska 1
- Hawaii 1
- Indiana 1
- Minnesota 1
- Mississippi 1
- Nevada 1
- Oregon 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Puerto Rico 1
- Vermont 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at West Marine
Tracked chains West Marine customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
F
Fisheries Supply
100
Fisheries Supply
100
S
Strike-Zone Fishing
91
A
Atlantic Marine
71
C
Chasin Tails Outdoors
68
O
Outcast Bait & Tackle
67
S
Sportsmans Wholesale
61
F
Fiddlers Cove RV Park
51
K
Key West NAS Commissary
50
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