Clothing trends may come and go, but hammers, ladders and lightbulbs never seem to go out of style. While many general and clothing retailers shuttered stores after a challenging holiday season, hardware specialty chains appear poised to continue doing good business.
Using its purchase consideration metric, a key measurement of potential sales revenue, YouGov BrandIndex crunched the data across more than 150 of the top brick and mortar national retail chains to see which ones registered significant statistical gains over one year ago.