Harbor Freight vs. Menards vs. other regional home improvement stores???

Just curious about how many regional home improvement store chains are out there?? I know there are national ones; Home Depot and Lowe's (I think is national) come to mind but I had never heard of Harbor Freight before joining SMF. I suspect its a Northeast and Great Lake region store. As someone who likes collecting geographic info trivia, just wondering how many regional home improvement stores are there in the US and Canada??



Besides the 2 national stores I mentioned above, my metro has two Menard's stores. Menard's is out of Wis. but I've seen them as far west as Rapid City, SD. Just wondering what's in your neighborhood for a big box regional home improvement store??

Dakota
Harbor Freight is more of a tool/hardware store than home improvement.
To add to your list. Wisconsin, Ill and Iowa have Farm and Fleet stores.
Blain's Farm and Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We have Ace Hardware as well as franchises (maybe a lot of chains are franchises). If you add farm supply stores, we have Tractor Supply Company (TSC), Mac's, and around other small cities in eastern SD, Runnings and a very small sub-regional company called Campbell Supply.

Menards actually has a store as far west as Casper, Wyoming.

In town, we have an Acer, a Hardware Hank, and a Tractor Supply.

We have Lowe's, Home Depot & Ace, and just recently got a HF in Nampa. Before I was having to make a 45 mile R/T. Now I am within 3 miles.

Here's a map of HF locations. I see one in Rapid City. 550 stores nationwide.

Harbor Freight Tools

Thanks Idaho, I guess I should have looked for a map of HF as well.

harsas- Do you think Rural King is a Southern chain??

Up here in Canada, we have our very own Harbor Freight....called Princess Auto. Kind of like a farm store/wannabe city weekend warrior supply store. Used to have lots of decent surplus stuff, but has slowly morphed into having lotsa Chinese junk.

also:
Lowes
Home Depot
Home Hardware


Jon.

Lowe's, Home Depot, Ace and H.F.

There is a harbor freight , home depot, lowes, and a mcoys in brownsville texas.

We have a Harbor Freight in Sarasota, Florida.

Wow, I'm surprised then that Harbor Freight doesn't open a store in Sioux Falls. Its economy never seems to falter much. People here love spending money on tools...