Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked electronics store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. ABC Cellular and IL Cell Phone Repair sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABC Cellular | - | +16.8% |
| 2 | IL Cell Phone Repair | - | +12.1% |
| 3 | Batteries Plus Bulbs | - | +11.4% |
| 4 | Apple | - | -0.9% |
| 5 | Best Buy | - | -2.1% |
| 6 | uBreakiFix | - | -10.8% |
- Best Buy
- Abt Electronics
- Apple
- Micro Center
- Apple Deer Park
- Batteries Plus Bulbs
- uBreakiFix
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
226 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 90 of the 226 stores (40%); 125 of the 135 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are electronics stores, against 2% across Illinois.
- Best Buy (35)
- Abt Electronics (1)
- Apple (7)
- Micro Center (2)
- Apple Deer Park (1)
- Batteries Plus Bulbs (25)
- uBreakiFix (19)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Best Buy 35
- 2 Batteries Plus Bulbs 25
- 3 uBreakiFix 19
- 4 Apple 7
- 5 ABC Cellular 4
- 6 IL Cell Phone Repair 3
- 7 Whole Cell Accessories 2
- 8 Affinity For Gaming 2
- 9 There's Fun In Store 2
- 10 Micro Center 2
- 11 Cellz-Repairz 1
- 12 Illinois Cell Phone Repair 1
- 13 Air Tec Service Center 1
- 14 Talk N' Fix 1
- 15 Minas 1
- 16 Gadget Garage 1
- 17 NCI Electronics Vape & Cigars 1
- 18 UTime Gamers 1
- 19 Xtreme Mobile 1
- 20 Tech Box Inc. 1
- 21 Digi-Cell Phone Repair 1
- 22 ABC Wireless 1
- 23 SmartFix 1
- 24 Munster Wireless Repair 1
- 25 TGS Oswego 1
- 26 The Fix Plus 1
- 27 Connect Cell Aurora 1
- 28 Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer 1
- 29 Kirby Risk 1
- 30 Comlink Wireless Communications 1
- 31 One Way Wireless 1
- 32 eRepair 1
- 33 Brass City Games 1
- 34 Chips 1
- 35 Unique Geek 1
- 36 Airtime Wireless iPhone Repair Center 1
- 37 Cell Phone Authority 1
- 38 Simply Cellular 1
- 39 Ezmobifix 1
- 40 Galeria Musical 1
- 41 Empire Wireless 1
- 42 TEC 1
- 43 Phone Fix & More 1
- 44 Dungeon Cat Gaming 1
- 45 AT&T Glen Ellyn 1
- 46 Wholesale PCS 1
- 47 Apple Northbrook 1
- 48 Dr Fix 1
- 49 Master Wireless Team 1
- 50 We fix Phones and More 1
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