Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every New Jersey metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Harbor Freight Tools leads in 2 metro areas, Ace Hardware in 2 metro areas. Against their share in New Jersey as a whole, Harbor Freight Tools stands out in 1 metro area, Ricciardi Brothers in 1 metro area, and True Value in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Harbor Freight Tools
Relative #1 in Philadelphia, PA (NJ part), 1.5× its share in New Jersey
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Ricciardi Brothers
Relative #1 in New York, NY (NJ part), 1.4× its share in New Jersey
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True Value
Relative #1 in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ, 3.2× its share in New Jersey
Not enough tracked stores: Allentown, PA (NJ part) · Vineland, NJ
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Trenton-Princeton, NJ
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in 2 metro areas
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Ace Hardware
#1 in 2 metro areas
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ · Trenton-Princeton, NJ
Not enough tracked stores: Allentown, PA (NJ part) · Vineland, NJ
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to New Jersey compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in New Jersey as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in New Jersey 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 New Jersey is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in New Jersey. 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 Jaeger Lumber sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ace Hardware | - | +6.2% |
| 2 | Jaeger Lumber | ▲2 | +1.5% |
| 3 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +0.5% |
| 4 | Ricciardi Brothers | - | -0.4% |
| 5 | Kucker Haney Paint CO | - | -13.9% |
| 6 | True Value | - | -15.3% |
| 7 | General Plumbing Supply | - | -18.7% |
| 8 | Wallington Plumbing Supply | ▼2 | -21.8% |
| 9 | Blue Ridge Lumber | - | -67.1% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Ricciardi Brothers
- Aaron & Company
- General Plumbing Supply
- Jaeger Lumber
- True Value
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
288 tracked store locations in New Jersey. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 107 of the 288 stores (37%); 155 of the 167 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.
- Harbor Freight Tools (30)
- Ace Hardware (24)
- Ricciardi Brothers (31)
- Aaron & Company (4)
- General Plumbing Supply (9)
- Jaeger Lumber (7)
- True Value (13)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ricciardi Brothers 31
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 30
- 3 Ace Hardware 24
- 4 True Value 13
- 5 General Plumbing Supply 9
- 6 Jaeger Lumber 7
- 7 Wallington Plumbing Supply 5
- 8 Aaron & Company 4
- 9 Blue Ridge Lumber 3
- 10 Kucker Haney Paint CO 3
- 11 Braen Supply 2
- 12 Kuiken Brothers Company 2
- 13 Netcong Hardware 1
- 14 County Welding Supply Co 1
- 15 Montclair Supply Corporation 1
- 16 All American Hardware 1
- 17 Hot Deals Today 1
- 18 Boulevard Hardware & Supply 1
- 19 Marsala Hardware 1
- 20 American Hardware of Lakeside 1
- 21 Mayerfeld Farms & Supply 1
- 22 La Llave Hardware 1
- 23 Hopatcong Hardware 1
- 24 Weiss True Value Hardware 1
- 25 Jamesburg Hardware 1
- 26 Kraut & Benson 1
- 27 West Milford Hardware 1
- 28 Get a Grip & More 1
- 29 Harmony Home & Garden 1
- 30 Frenchtown Home and Hardware Store 1
- 31 Canvas Werks 1
- 32 Continental Trading & Hardware 1
- 33 C.A. Power Equipment 1
- 34 Van Houten Supply 1
- 35 Major Hardware Supply 1
- 36 Station Hardware & Garden Center 1
- 37 Aubuchon Hardware 1
- 38 Joseph Ricciardi Paints 1
- 39 Israel Paint & Hardware 1
- 40 Beebe Inc Plumbing Supplyhouse 1
- 41 Ramsey Hardware & Paint 1
- 42 Village Hardware & Paint 1
- 43 Aaron Kitchen & Bath Design Gallery 1
- 44 Ormsby's Lawn Equipment 1
- 45 Avalon Hardware 1
- 46 Standard Group 1
- 47 Reuben Hardware 1
- 48 The Green Trellis 1
- 49 Towne Hardware 1
- 50 Overhead Door of Central NJ 1
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