Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked warehouse club 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. Costco and Sam's Club sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costco | - | +0.6% |
| 2 | Sam's Club | - | -0.7% |
| 3 | Illco | - | -41.4% |
- Costco
- Sam's Club
- Sams Beauty Warehouse
- American Distributors
- Willow Electrical Supply
- Ak Wholesale Inc
- Illco
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
79 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 47 of the 79 stores (59%); 34 of the 37 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are warehouse clubs, the same share as across Illinois.
- Costco (25)
- Sam's Club (17)
- Sams Beauty Warehouse (1)
- American Distributors (1)
- Willow Electrical Supply (1)
- Ak Wholesale Inc (1)
- Illco (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Costco 25
- 2 Sam's Club 17
- 3 Illco 3
- 4 Vitaminka 1
- 5 Budgets N Bundles 1
- 6 Chicago Basil 1
- 7 Olympia Trading 1
- 8 Hebron Imports 1
- 9 Craig Bachman Imports Inc 1
- 10 Tri-County Landscape Supply 1
- 11 Sanctuary Traders 1
- 12 American Green Smoke 1
- 13 CAG Wholesale 1
- 14 Chicagoland Merchants' Market 1
- 15 Star Distributors 1
- 16 BJ's 1
- 17 Touge Factory 1
- 18 ZZ Wholesale 1
- 19 Ink Smith Inc 1
- 20 Discount Dash 1
- 21 Sams Beauty Warehouse 1
- 22 American Distributors 1
- 23 Willow Electrical Supply 1
- 24 Ak Wholesale Inc 1
- 25 Bee Sales Co 1
- 26 Joong Boo Warehouse Market 1
- 27 Apet Inc 1
- 28 RN International 1
- 29 Chicago Import Inc 1
- 30 911 Volts 1
- 31 Villa Park Electrical Supply Co. 1
- 32 Dearborn Marketplace 1
- 33 TriStar Pipe & Supply 1
- 34 Brewer Quilting and Sewing Supplies 1
- 35 American Beauty Equipment 1
- 36 The Mueller Group, Inc. 1
- 37 Golden Country Oriental Food 1
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