Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 237 stores from 103 hardware store chains in Minnesota. Acme Tools grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ag Partners Coop and Ace Hardware.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
103
Tracked stores
237
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Acme Tools and Ag Partners Coop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Acme Tools - +16.7%
2 Ag Partners Coop - +15.2%
3 Ace Hardware ▲1 +10.7%
4 Harbor Freight Tools ▼1 +6.2%
5 Hardware Hank ▲2 +2.7%
6 Minnesota Equipment ▲1 -25.8%
7 True Value - -30.1%
8 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware ▼1 -30.9%
9 Jerry's Do it Best Hardware ▼2 -59.7%
  • Ace Hardware
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Acme Tools
  • True Value
  • Hardware Hank
  • Pellicci Ace Hardware
  • Rockler Woodworking and Hardware
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

237 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 127 of the 237 stores (54%); 92 of the 103 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.

  • Ace Hardware (63)
  • Harbor Freight Tools (23)
  • Acme Tools (5)
  • True Value (21)
  • Hardware Hank (15)
  • Pellicci Ace Hardware (2)
  • Rockler Woodworking and Hardware (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Ace Hardware 63
  • 2 Harbor Freight Tools 23
  • 3 True Value 21
  • 4 Hardware Hank 15
  • 5 Acme Tools 5
  • 6 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 4
  • 7 Minnesota Equipment 4
  • 8 Ag Partners Coop 3
  • 9 Jerry's Do it Best Hardware 3
  • 10 United Hardware 2
  • 11 Pellicci Ace Hardware 2
  • 12 Sauser's Hardware 1
  • 13 Trustworthy Hardware 1
  • 14 Braham Hardware & Rental 1
  • 15 Vergas Hardware 1
  • 16 Hugo Equipment Company 1
  • 17 Hubbards Hardware 1
  • 18 7 Rivers Surplus 1
  • 19 Fleet Distributing Supply 1
  • 20 Generation Building Center 1
  • 21 Buzz Mart 1
  • 22 Czarnetzki Hardware Hank 1
  • 23 Everts Lumber Co. 1
  • 24 Bryant Hardware 1
  • 25 Mark's Home & More 1
  • 26 Lindstrom Hardware Do it Best 1
  • 27 Farm City Supply 1
  • 28 R & S Hardware Home & More 1
  • 29 Lossing Building Center 1
  • 30 Hendricks Farmers Lumber 1
  • 31 Timber Building Supply 1
  • 32 Strand Ace Hardware Barnesville 1
  • 33 Run Right Power Equipment 1
  • 34 Kaz Hardware & Rental 1
  • 35 Johnson's Hardware & Rental 1
  • 36 Bradach Lumber 1
  • 37 Beisswenger's Hardware & Power Equipment 1
  • 38 Hokah Hardware Inc. 1
  • 39 Minneapolis Oxygen Company 1
  • 40 McCollum Hardware 1
  • 41 Thurlow Hardware 1
  • 42 Noll Hardware Hank 1
  • 43 Northern Tool + Equipment 1
  • 44 Pink's Hardware 1
  • 45 B to Z Hardware 1
  • 46 Le Center Hardware Hank 1
  • 47 Main Street General 1
  • 48 JC's General Store 1
  • 49 Midwest Supply of Slayton 1
  • 50 Kingsley Mercantile 1

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