Overall, 5 366 stores (end of 2019) belong to the cooperative after 208 stores were added during the year and 95 ceased. Around 810 stores are operated by retailers in around 65 countries outside of the USA.
For the store network in the USA, the headquarters reported only the growth rates on the basis of the feedback from around 3 200 associated traders. According to this, the same-store sales grew last year by 2.8 per cent as a result of a 2.6 per cent increase in average ticket and a 0.2 per cent increase in same-store transactions.
Sales through the online shop under acehardware.com rose by 59 per cent.