Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

Iceflower tracks 35 stores from 18 hardware store chains in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA.

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
18
Tracked stores
35
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. Harbor Freight Tools and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Harbor Freight Tools - +17.0%
2 Ace Hardware - +4.7%
  • Ace Hardware
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Great America Santa Clara
  • Outdoor Supply Hardware
  • Johnson Lumber Ace Hardware
  • Contractor's Warehouse
  • Fasteners Inc
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

35 tracked store locations in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 22 of the 35 stores (63%); 14 of the 18 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, the same share as across California.

  • Ace Hardware (12)
  • Harbor Freight Tools (4)
  • Great America Santa Clara (1)
  • Outdoor Supply Hardware (3)
  • Johnson Lumber Ace Hardware (1)
  • Contractor's Warehouse (1)
  • Fasteners Inc (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Ace Hardware 12
  • 2 Harbor Freight Tools 4
  • 3 Outdoor Supply Hardware 3
  • 4 True Value 2
  • 5 Tool Time 1
  • 6 Creative Paint 1
  • 7 Economy Lumber 1
  • 8 Los Altos Hardware 1
  • 9 Rural Supply 1
  • 10 Gardenland Power Equipment 1
  • 11 Universal Electrical Supply 1
  • 12 Pine Cone Lumber 1
  • 13 American Ace Supply SJ Inc 1
  • 14 Rubenstein Supply 1
  • 15 Fasteners Inc 1
  • 16 Contractor's Warehouse 1
  • 17 Johnson Lumber Ace Hardware 1
  • 18 Great America Santa Clara 1

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