{"id":8473,"date":"2016-12-29T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2016-12-29T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T08:48:09","slug":"farm-home-top-stores-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/12\/farm-home-top-stores-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm &amp; Home: Top Stores of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a few days left in 2016 (give or take), let\u2019s have a look at the current state of the farm-and-home space pulled from <strong>Chain Store Guide\u2019s Database of\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-89-hardware-home-center-leads.aspx\"><strong>Home Center Operators &amp; Hardware Chains<\/strong><\/a>. In addition to the home centers and hardware retailers conveniently called out in its name, the database also includes farm-and-home retailers and co-ops; flooring, kitchen-and-bath, door-and-window, paint and home d\u00e9cor chains; lumberyards, garden centers and nurseries; and finally suppliers and distributors of building materials.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Top 16 chains in the industry \u2013 by store count \u2013 at the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"green\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/hard_exclusive2016.jpg\" alt=\"green\" name=\"Cont_0\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Source: <strong>Chain Store Guide\u2019s<\/strong> Home Center Operators &amp; Hardware Chains Database. *Includes 26 Del\u2019s locations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Tractor Supply<\/strong> closed a deal in September to acquire <strong>Petsense<\/strong>, a 140+ unit chain of small-format pet stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Rural King<\/strong> added 7 stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The big mover of 2016 in the less-than-100 store group was <strong>Family Farm<\/strong> <strong>&amp; Home<\/strong>; its store count increased by 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Orscheln Farm &amp; Home<\/strong>, #3 on this list, opened 6 new stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a few days left in 2016 (give or take), let\u2019s have a look at the current state of the farm-and-home space pulled from Chain Store Guide\u2019s Database of\u00a0 Home Center Operators &amp; Hardware Chains. In addition to the home centers and hardware retailers conveniently called out in its name, the database also includes farm-and-home&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/12\/farm-home-top-stores-of-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farm &amp; Home: Top Stores of 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-csg-exclusive","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}