Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every Michigan metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Ace Hardware leads in 5 metro areas, Harbor Freight Tools in 3 metro areas, and Chelsea Lumber Company in 1 metro area. Against their share in Michigan as a whole, Ace Hardware stands out in 6 metro areas, Great Lakes Ace Hardware in 1 metro area, and Gill-Roy's Hardware in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
Grand Rapids, MI 1.4× · Lansing-East Lansing, MI 1.4× · Niles, MI 1.2× · Ann Arbor, MI 1.3× · Traverse City, MI 2× · Battle Creek, MI 1.7×
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Great Lakes Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, 2.4× its share in Michigan
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Gill-Roy's Hardware
Relative #1 in Flint, MI, 5.4× its share in Michigan
Not enough tracked stores: Bay City, MI · Kalamazoo-Portage, MI · Midland, MI · Monroe, MI · Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI · Saginaw, MI · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (MI part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Jackson, MI
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Ace Hardware
#1 in 5 metro areas
Grand Rapids, MI · Lansing-East Lansing, MI · Niles, MI · Traverse City, MI · Battle Creek, MI
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in 3 metro areas
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Flint, MI · Jackson, MI
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Chelsea Lumber Company
#1 in Ann Arbor, MI
Not enough tracked stores: Bay City, MI · Kalamazoo-Portage, MI · Midland, MI · Monroe, MI · Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI · Saginaw, MI · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (MI part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Michigan compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Michigan as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Michigan 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 Michigan is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Michigan. 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. Great Lakes Ace Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Great Lakes Ace Hardware | - | +4.4% |
| 2 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +1.9% |
| 3 | Ace Hardware | - | +0.5% |
| 4 | Burnips Equipment | - | +0.2% |
| 5 | Gill-Roy's Hardware | - | -1.8% |
| 6 | LumberJack Building Centers | - | -4.3% |
| 7 | True Value | - | -11.7% |
| 8 | Bernard Building Center | - | -19.2% |
| 9 | Big C Lumber | - | -27.8% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Great Lakes Ace Hardware
- Gill-Roy's Hardware
- True Value
- Chelsea Lumber Company
- Rylee's Ace Hardware
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
639 tracked store locations in Michigan. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 287 of the 639 stores (45%); 311 of the 332 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (56)
- Ace Hardware (150)
- Great Lakes Ace Hardware (16)
- Gill-Roy's Hardware (25)
- True Value (40)
- Chelsea Lumber Company (2)
- Rylee's Ace Hardware (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 150
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 56
- 3 True Value 40
- 4 Gill-Roy's Hardware 25
- 5 Great Lakes Ace Hardware 16
- 6 Big C Lumber 6
- 7 Burnips Equipment 4
- 8 Bernard Building Center 4
- 9 LumberJack Building Centers 3
- 10 Village Hardware 2
- 11 DeWitt Lumber 2
- 12 Richfield Trailer Supply 2
- 13 Sequin Lumber Company 2
- 14 Superior Saw 2
- 15 41 Lumber 2
- 16 Smith Lumber 2
- 17 Mans Lumber 2
- 18 Chelsea Lumber Company 2
- 19 Do It Best 2
- 20 SF Supply 1
- 21 Great Lakes Pipe & Supply 1
- 22 Yale Hardware Inc. 1
- 23 Cadillac Hardware 1
- 24 Stanton Hardware 1
- 25 Lockeman's Hardware & Boats 1
- 26 Sloans Sales & Service 1
- 27 Howard's Outdoor Power Equipment 1
- 28 Glaser's Lumber 1
- 29 Nelson Hardware 1
- 30 Coopersville Hardware and Feed 1
- 31 Springfield Do It Center 1
- 32 Marion Lumber Co Inc 1
- 33 Northwoods Hardware 1
- 34 Glen Wing Power Tools 1
- 35 Brighton Paint Co. 1
- 36 Graafschap Hardware 1
- 37 Somerset Hardware 1
- 38 Pointe Hardware & Lumber 1
- 39 Painters Supply & Equipment Co. 1
- 40 Hamtramck Hardware 1
- 41 Marsh Power Tools 1
- 42 Hood's Do it Best 1
- 43 Fairview Hardware 1
- 44 Ivanrest Hardware 1
- 45 Sanford Hardware 1
- 46 Aa Hardware Ii 1
- 47 BROOKS LUMBER 1
- 48 Alpha Building Center 1
- 49 Frentz & Sons Hardware 1
- 50 Dillman & Upton 1
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