Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every Colorado metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Ace Hardware leads in 3 metro areas, Harbor Freight Tools in 1 metro area, and McGuckin Hardware in 1 metro area. Against their share in Colorado as a whole, Ace Hardware stands out in 3 metro areas, Harbor Freight Tools in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Fort Collins-Loveland, CO 0.9× · Boulder, CO 0.7× · Greeley, CO 2.2×
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Harbor Freight Tools
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO 1.1× · Colorado Springs, CO 3×
Not enough tracked stores: Grand Junction, CO · Pueblo, CO
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Ace Hardware
#1 in 3 metro areas
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO · Fort Collins-Loveland, CO · Greeley, CO
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in Colorado Springs, CO
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McGuckin Hardware
#1 in Boulder, CO
Not enough tracked stores: Grand Junction, CO · Pueblo, CO
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Colorado compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Colorado as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Colorado and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Colorado is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hardware 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. Ace Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Ace Hardware | - | -0.4% |
| 2 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | -13.4% |
| 3 | Moore Lumber & Hardware | - | -16.6% |
- Ace Hardware
- Harbor Freight Tools
- McGuckin Hardware
- True Value
- Rampart Supply
- Budget Home Supply
- George T. Sanders Company
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
240 tracked store locations in Colorado. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 134 of the 240 stores (56%); 96 of the 106 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Ace Hardware (82)
- Harbor Freight Tools (23)
- McGuckin Hardware (1)
- True Value (18)
- Rampart Supply (2)
- Budget Home Supply (1)
- George T. Sanders Company (8)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 82
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 23
- 3 True Value 18
- 4 George T. Sanders Company 8
- 5 Moore Lumber & Hardware 3
- 6 Rampart Supply 2
- 7 The Big Tool Box 2
- 8 Woodcraft 2
- 9 Bloedorn Lumber 2
- 10 Mac Equipment 2
- 11 DEWALT Service Center 1
- 12 Mesa Hardware 1
- 13 Central Building Supply 1
- 14 Ridgway Hardware 1
- 15 Town and Country Hardware 1
- 16 Valley Lumber 1
- 17 Grand Lake Hardware 1
- 18 Holyoke Ace Hardware 1
- 19 Blue Spruce Building Materials 1
- 20 Ted's Rental & Sales 1
- 21 Craig's Power Equipment 1
- 22 Everitt Moore Home Center 1
- 23 CD Fasteners 1
- 24 Lamar Building Material Supply 1
- 25 Paonia Farm & Home Supply 1
- 26 Timberline Builders' Supply 1
- 27 Rocky Mountain Lumber & Hardware 1
- 28 Cripple Creek Hardware & Supply 1
- 29 Frontier Bolt 1
- 30 Flat Tops Ranch Supply 1
- 31 La Jara Trading Post 1
- 32 Buena Vista True Value 1
- 33 K & K Surplus 1
- 34 Ridgway Ace Hardware 1
- 35 Tool Zone 1
- 36 Table Mesa Hardware 1
- 37 Montrose Hardware 1
- 38 Farm & Home Lumber 1
- 39 Direct Tools Factory Outlet 1
- 40 Ace Hardware of Clifton 1
- 41 The Knife Guys 1
- 42 Trimble Hardware 1
- 43 Western Hardware 1
- 44 Dolores General Store 1
- 45 Wood Emporium 1
- 46 Charlie's Second Hand 1
- 47 MJK Lumber & Design Center 1
- 48 Red Mountain Trading Post 1
- 49 Main Supply 1
- 50 Mead Lumber 1
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