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.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ace Hardware | - | +4.6% |
- Ace Hardware
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Jerry's Paint and Hardware
- Humphrey's Building Supply
- The Portland Group
- The Electric Connection
- True Value
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
30 tracked store locations in Rhode Island. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 14 of the 30 stores (47%); 18 of the 21 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Ace Hardware (7)
- Harbor Freight Tools (2)
- Jerry's Paint and Hardware (1)
- Humphrey's Building Supply (1)
- The Portland Group (1)
- The Electric Connection (1)
- True Value (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 7
- 2 True Value 3
- 3 Harbor Freight Tools 2
- 4 Scituate Hardware 1
- 5 Depault Hardware 1
- 6 Chepachet Hardware 1
- 7 Aquidneck Fasteners, Inc. 1
- 8 Compass Hardware 1
- 9 Salk's Ace Hardware and Marine 1
- 10 Durfee Hardware 1
- 11 Wickford Lumber Co. 1
- 12 Taylor True Value Rental 1
- 13 Scituate Lumber 1
- 14 Rocky's Ace Hardware 1
- 15 Burns Power Tools 1
- 16 Rhode Island Harvesting Company 1
- 17 Bulk Lawn and Garden 1
- 18 The Electric Connection 1
- 19 The Portland Group 1
- 20 Humphrey's Building Supply 1
- 21 Jerry's Paint and Hardware 1
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