Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers (U.S.) — NAICS 459

A rollup primer for a general investing audience — relevant to both public-market and private investors. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) — the U.S. government's scheme for sorting businesses by activity — code 459 is a subsector (the 3-digit level) inside Retail Trade (Sector 44–45). It gathers six child industry groups (4-digit codes): 4591, 4592, 4593, 4594, 4595, and 4599. This page synthesizes across the six already-written child primers plus our own ground-truth federal figures for the 459 level. As of July 2026.

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1. Overview

NAICS 459 is retail's "everything else" subsector — the specialty and miscellaneous stores left over after the government has pulled out motor vehicles (441), building materials and garden supplies (444), food and beverage (445), furniture/electronics/appliances (449), general merchandise (455), health and personal care (456), gasoline (457), and clothing, shoes, and jewelry (458). What remains is six commercially unrelated retail worlds filed under one number: the sporting-goods and hobby superstore; the bookshop and newsstand; the flower shop; the office-supply chain and the gift/souvenir counter; the thrift and consignment store; and a giant grab-bag of pet stores, art galleries, manufactured-home lots, vape shops, pool stores, and coin dealers.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Because it is a residual bucket, 459 is not a single industry you can underwrite. Its six children have different customers, margins, owners, and ways in. The rollup's job is not to average them into one number — the averages here are close to meaningless — but to show how sharply they diverge, so you underwrite the child (and inside the two large catch-all children, the specific niche), never the "miscellaneous retail" label.

Three threads do run across all six children, and they are the reason to read the subsector as a whole:

1. It is mostly discretionary specialty retail under siege from outside the code. Almost everything on these shelves is a "want," not a "need," so the subsector is cyclical and an early casualty when budgets tighten. And in nearly every child, the toughest competition — mass merchants (Walmart, Target, Costco), Amazon, and dollar stores — is booked under other NAICS codes, taking the price-driven volume while the specialty channel keeps the curation-and-experience remainder.[2][5][6]
2. Ownership skews private and small. Outside a few pockets, there is barely a clean public pure-play in the whole subsector; tens of thousands of firms are family-owned, private-equity-held, cooperative, nonprofit, or single-location independents. Public-market money reaches most of 459 only obliquely.
3. The official count understates it — badly. These are specialty-store codes that miss both the microbusiness tail (the nonemployer shops that dominate this subsector) and the huge volumes of the same products sold through channels classified elsewhere. Treat the federal totals as a floor.

The distinctive value of this page is the contrast across the six children — relative size, direction of travel, who owns them, and how (if at all) a public investor can buy in. The next section draws that contrast; the rest treats the subsector as a whole. Each child has its own primer (4591, 4592, 4593, 4594, 4595, 4599) with company-level detail.

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2. What's inside — the six children and how they differ

NAICS nests from broad to narrow: sector (2-digit) → subsector (3, this page) → industry group (4) → industry (5) → national industry (6). Below, each child is a row; the columns are the questions an investor actually asks. Concentration is captured by CR4 — the four-firm concentration ratio, the combined revenue share of the four largest firms; higher means more concentrated.

Shares are each child's 2022 Economic Census receipts and firm counts as a percentage of the 459 totals in Section 3; they sum (with rounding) to ~100%.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] "PE" = private equity. Tickers and company detail are reserved for Sections 4 and 10.

Four things this table shows that no single leaf primer can:

1. Two children are the subsector. "Other Miscellaneous" (4599) is 40% of the money and 43% of the firms; "Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument" (4591) is another 32% and 22%. Together they are ~72% of receipts and ~65% of firms — and both are themselves multi-industry catch-alls. The four remaining children (books, florists, office/gift, used) split the rest. When you hear "NAICS 459," picture the pet-and-sporting-goods-and-miscellaneous store first.

2. The subsector is not uniformly declining — but the growth is concentrated in two places. Most of these channels are flat-to-shrinking specialty formats losing share to Amazon and mass merchants (books, florists, office supplies, sewing). The two genuine growth stories are used merchandise / recommerce (4595, growing several times faster than clothing retail) and pet (inside 4599). The dividing line is not "old vs. new retail" — it is which formats own something the discounters can't cheaply copy: value and supply (thrift), or replenishment and services (pet).[6][7]

3. Public investability is thin, lopsided, and unrelated to size. The biggest child (4599) has a clean public entry in only one of its four niches (pet). The most concentrated child (books, 4592) has no clean pure-play at all — its leaders are private. The most fragmented child (used merchandise, 4595) actually offers the deepest public menu. There is no relationship between how big a child is, how concentrated it is, and whether you can buy it on an exchange.

4. Concentration ranges across almost the entire spectrum. From near-atomistic used merchandise (CR4 9.8%) to a concentrated book channel (CR4 61.6%), these six children span most of the range the federal data can show. Blending them (Section 3) hides that entirely.

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3. Size (this level's rollup figures)

These are our ground-truth federal statistics for NAICS 459, from the 2022 Economic Census (the most recent full-count business census). They are the ground truth for this page.

Source: [1]. CR4/CR8/CR20/CR50 are concentration ratios — the combined revenue share of the largest 4, 8, 20, or 50 firms. HHI is a standard single-number concentration score (0 = perfect fragmentation, 10,000 = one firm); U.S. antitrust agencies treat anything under ~1,500 as "unconcentrated."

The rollup reconciles. The six children's Economic Census receipts ($122.2B + $15.4B + $10.2B + $57.1B + $24.8B + $154.0B) add to ~$383.6B, matching the level total to within rounding; their firm counts (31,766 + 4,034 + 12,102 + 19,835 + 15,344 + 62,551) sum to ~145,600 against the published 145,400 — a difference well under a quarter of one percent. Average receipts run about $2.64 million per firm across the subsector — but that mean spans an ~$0.85M florist, a ~$1.6M thrift store, a ~$3.9M sporting-goods operator, and every catch-all niche in between, so it describes no real business.

Why the subsector looks far more fragmented than most of its children. The level's CR4 is just 13.4% and its HHI only 74.5 — lower than every child except used merchandise (whose CR4 is 9.8% and HHI 39.4). Every other child is more concentrated, and one (books) is nearly five times as concentrated by CR4. This is not a contradiction; it is an aggregation artifact worth understanding, because two of the child primers flag the same effect one level down. The largest firm in each child is a different firm, dominant only inside its own lane: the sporting-goods leader sells no flowers; the office-supply duopolists sell no pets; the top thrift chain sells no new books; the pet giants sell no manufactured homes. Pool six separate lane-leaders into one bucket and no single firm is large relative to the combined ~$384B total — so the subsector reads as atomized even though several of its slices are moderately-to-highly concentrated. The honest read: 459 is a shelf of six differently-structured cottage industries, not one fragmented market. Any antitrust or "competitive intensity" conclusion drawn from the 459 headline number is meaningless; the real structure lives child by child (Section 8).

Undercount caveat — read this before you quote $384 billion. The figure understates what Americans actually spend on this merchandise, and the gap runs in two directions — both of which are unusually large in this subsector:

1. Channel scope. These are specialty-store codes: they count only stores whose primary business is the category. Enormous volumes flow through channels booked elsewhere — general merchandise and warehouse clubs (Walmart, Target, Costco; Sector 455), pure online sellers and Amazon (nonstore retail), apparel and footwear stores (458), grocery floral aisles (445), and convenience stores (which carry an estimated ~87% of U.S. tobacco retail dollars).[2][4][5][7] Cross-channel estimates routinely run far above the specialty-store count — U.S. sporting-goods spend near $105–110B versus ~$82B counted, floral gifting near $12B versus ~$10B, pet spending near $158B against a specialty pet channel a fraction of that.[2][4][7] Treat each child's official receipts as a floor on category demand.
2. Nonemployers. The Economic Census emphasizes firms with paid employees; the tiniest owner-operated shops with no payroll are tallied separately in Census Nonemployer Statistics. This subsector is the retail home of the microbusiness — solo online resellers, home-based florists, antique-booth and estate-sale operators, one-person art dealers, weekend coin and card sellers, independent quilt, game, and vape shops. Because individual and family ownership dominates the firm count in every child, the true population of very small operators is materially higher than 145,400.[3][4][6][7]

What this level's file does not carry. Our 459 ground-truth data covers receipts, firm count, and concentration only. It does not include establishment counts, employment, or payroll — those employer-level figures live in the child primers (which draw them from a different program, County Business Patterns), and we do not restate them as official 459 figures. Nor do federal data report subsector-wide profitability, same-store sales, inventory turns, e-commerce share, growth series, or public-versus-private ownership. Investors underwrite the operator, not the census.

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4. Investable universe (where value concentrates across the children)

The single most important cross-child fact for a public-market investor is the mismatch between where the receipts are and where the listed equity is. Value concentrates in a different place in each child, and the on-ramps range from clean to nonexistent. There is no dedicated ETF (exchange-traded fund) for NAICS 459, and no company that is "the" 459 stock. The listed exposure that does exist clusters in three of the six children:

• Sporting goods, inside 4591 (~32% of the subsector) — the deepest clean public menu. After a two-year consolidation wave the listed field is thin but real: DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS), the scaled leader and consolidator (now owner of Foot Locker); Academy Sports + Outdoors (NASDAQ: ASO), the value challenger; and small-cap Sportsman's Warehouse (NASDAQ: SPWH), with an outdoor/hunting tilt.[2] The rest of 4591 — toys, sewing, and music — runs from a thin, idiosyncratic public list (Build-A-Bear, GameStop, Five Below, London-listed Games Workshop) to no listed pure-play at all (sewing's last public chain, JOANN, was liquidated in 2025; music's chains are PE-owned).[2]
• Pet, inside 4599 (~40% of the subsector) — the group's only other clean entry. Two sizeable pure-plays trade publicly: Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) (online) and Petco (NASDAQ: WOOF) (stores plus grooming and vet services). The largest specialty chain, PetSmart, is private. This is the one niche of the giant "miscellaneous" child a public investor can own directly.[7] The rest of 4599 is oblique: art has no listed pure-play (the auction majors are private); manufactured homes is investable only upstream through integrated manufacturers and land-lease real estate investment trusts (REITs — companies that own income property and pass most taxable income to shareholders); and the only listed in-scope operators in the residual catch-all are cannabis multi-state operators (MSOs), which — because cannabis is federally illegal — cannot list on the NYSE or Nasdaq and trade OTC with thin liquidity.[7]
• Used merchandise (4595, ~6%) — the most fragmented child, yet the broadest listed menu. Savers Value Village (NYSE: SVV) (store-based thrift), Winmark (NASDAQ: WINA) (a capital-light resale franchisor), and online consignment names The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) and ThredUp (NASDAQ: TDUP), with eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) as the adjacent recommerce giant. But the largest sellers of used goods in the country — Goodwill and The Salvation Army — are nonprofits you cannot buy.[6]

The other three children offer essentially no clean public equity: books (4592) — leaders Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million are private; florists (4593) — one founder-controlled micro-cap, 1-800-Flowers.com (NASDAQ: FLWS), part flowers and part gourmet gifting; and the office half of 4594 — a PE-owned duopoly (Sycamore's Staples, Atlas's Office Depot/ODP) reachable only through leveraged loans and high-yield bonds, with Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) the one small-cap pure-play on the gift half.[3][4][5]

Where value really concentrates — privately — across the subsector: family-controlled dynasties (Bass Pro/Cabela's, Scheels, L.L.Bean, Hobby Lobby, Books-A-Million); private equity and private credit (Michaels, Guitar Center, Staples, ODP, PetSmart, and the business-development companies — BDCs, publicly traded lenders to private firms — that hold their debt); cooperatives (REI); nonprofits (Goodwill, Salvation Army); and, in every child, a long tail of single-location independents reachable only by direct ownership.[2][5][6][7] The takeaway for allocation: a public-equity investor can reach roughly three niches of this subsector cleanly — sporting goods, pet, and recommerce — and little else; a private-market or operator-investor gets the whole board.

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5. How the money works

Every child runs the same skeleton — buy finished goods, hold inventory, resell at a markup, and turn the inventory fast enough to earn a return on the cash tied up — measured by the same specialty-retail levers: gross margin, comparable ("same-store") sales, average ticket, inventory turns, and omnichannel fulfillment such as "buy online, pick up in store." For public operators that rolls up into operating margin, earnings, and buybacks; for private owners into free cash flow and the exit multiple. But the margin engine differs so much that a single "retail" mental model will mislead you:

• Sporting goods, hobby, music (4591): low-to-mid-30s% gross margins with heavy dependence on a few footwear/apparel brands (a lever vendors can pull by going direct); profit in private label, experiential formats, collectibles, and music services (lessons, repairs, school-band rentals).[2]
• Books (4592): a thin-margin, low-turnover business — buy from publishers at ~40–50% off cover, return unsold copies for credit, and lean on higher-margin café, gifts, and stationery for profit.[3]
• Florists (4593): high markups on flowers (often 60%+ over wholesale) offset by spoilage, skilled designer labor, and delivery — plus the wire-service model, where order-gathering networks relay out-of-town orders to a local shop and take ~25–30% combined. Extreme seasonality: Valentine's and Mother's Day drive close to 40% of purchases.[4]
• Office & gift (4594): office supplies is quietly turning into a B2B (business-to-business) distribution business where logistics scale is the moat and PE owners harvest cash through store closures; gifts runs on impulse and location — imported goods at high markups, prime tourist/airport/mall placement as the asset, and severe holiday markdown risk.[5]
• Used merchandise (4595): near-zero cost of goods → structurally high gross margins (one online player posts ~79%), but labor-intensive sorting, grading, and authenticating keep operating margins thin; supply, not demand, is the binding constraint (you sell what walks in the door). Watch the sell-through rate.[6]
• Other miscellaneous (4599): pet monetizes replenishment and services the discounters can't ship; art turns on own-inventory-vs.-consignment; manufactured homes resemble auto retail (gross profit per home plus finance-and-insurance income, gated by floor-plan and chattel credit); the residual niches are set by seasonality and — for tobacco — regulation.[7]

Common to nearly all six: imported cost of goods, so tariffs feed straight into gross margin, and a squeezed middle — undifferentiated mid-market operators lose to scaled discounters on price and to niche specialists on expertise.

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6. Demand drivers

One driver sits above the rest and applies to most of the subsector: consumer discretionary spending and confidence. Nearly everything here is optional, so 459 rises and falls with household budgets and is an early indicator of consumer stress. Layered on top, each child has its own engine — and they barely overlap, which is another reason the rollup average is uninformative:

• Sporting goods / hobby / music: sports and fitness participation, the durable post-2020 outdoor lift, athleisure cycles, the "kidult" adult-collector wave, licensed intellectual property, and the post-pandemic new-musician pipeline.[2]
• Books: discretionary and holiday-weighted spending, the durability of print, social-media virality ("BookTok"), the audiobook shift, and campus enrollment.[3]
• Florists: occasion- and ritual-driven (Valentine's, Mother's Day, weddings, funerals) — emotionally resilient in downturns but concentrated on a few dates.[4]
• Office & gift: office tracks white-collar employment, enrollment, and procurement against the structural headwind of remote/hybrid work and paperless offices; gift tracks travel and tourism, gifting occasions, and fandom/collectible cycles.[5]
• Used merchandise: counter-cyclical value-seeking, sustainability and destigmatization (strongest among Gen Z and Millennials), the 2025 tariff/"de minimis" squeeze on cheap new imports, and AI-assisted listing and authentication that cut friction.[6]
• Other miscellaneous: pet humanization and ~71% household pet ownership; wealth cycles for art; the housing-affordability gap (gated by interest rates) for manufactured homes; and the nicotine-substitution shift toward vape, pouches, and cannabis.[7]

The constant backdrop across all six is digital competition and the migration of price-driven volume to mass merchants and Amazon.

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7. Regulation

There is no single "459 regulator." Most of what these stores sell falls under ordinary retail law — sales-tax collection under economic-nexus rules after South Dakota v. Wayfair, advertising standards, labor and wage law, zoning, accessibility, and privacy. None of it calls for regulated-utility rate-base, REIT-specific, or mining-style frameworks; it is ordinary consumer-retail regulation with a handful of category-specific hot spots that differ sharply by child:

• Sporting goods (4591): firearms — a Federal Firearms License (FFL) from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and background checks; plus toy safety (Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC) and instrument materials under CITES/the Lacey Act.[2]
• Books (4592): light — sales tax, the first-sale doctrine underpinning resale, postal Media Mail rates, and upstream antitrust over publishers.[3]
• Florists (4593): light — USDA APHIS plant-import inspection, tariffs on imported cut flowers, and the FTC Funeral Rule; Louisiana dropped the last retail-florist license in 2024.[4]
• Office & gift (4594): defined historically by antitrust (the FTC blocked a Staples–Office Depot merger twice), plus import tariffs and product safety on toys and novelties.[5]
• Used merchandise (4595): state/local secondhand-dealer and anti-fencing laws, the federal INFORM Consumers Act for online marketplaces, and the tax-exempt/donation-deduction regime underpinning nonprofit thrift.[6]
• Other miscellaneous (4599): the sharpest split in the subsector — the tobacco/e-cigarette/cannabis segment is among the most heavily regulated retail in the economy (FDA product authorization, flavor bans, excise taxes, cannabis's federal-state conflict), while manufactured homes sit under HUD's federal construction code but local placement zoning, and the rest run on baseline retail rules.[7]

Two cross-cutting items touch the whole subsector: tariffs and trade policy on imported goods (a live cost variable for nearly every child) and online-marketplace rules (INFORM Consumers Act).

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8. Consolidation

The level-wide concentration data (Section 3) look fragmented, but that is the blending artifact explained above. The real story is child by child, and it points in different directions:

• Sporting goods (in 4591) is actively consolidating — three public competitors vanished in ~18 months (DICK'S bought Foot Locker, JD Sports bought Hibbett, Big 5 went private) — into a barbell of scaled omnichannel winners over niche survivors, with failures clustered in the undifferentiated middle. Sewing, by contrast, has seen its national-chain segment collapse (Hancock, then JOANN), and music consolidated years ago and now grinds through attrition.[2]
• Books (4592) is a concentrated specialty channel over a fragmented indie tail — the public pure-play model disappeared (Borders failed; Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million went private) even as an independent-bookstore renaissance adds stores each year.[3]
• Florists (4593) is a top-heavy-but-fragmented base ripe for roll-ups — storefront counts have more than halved since the 1990s as demand drifts to grocery, mass, and online, with consolidation concentrating in technology and delivery platforms rather than fleets of identical shops.[4]
• Office & gift (4594) sits at opposite ends of the arc — office supplies is the finished consolidation story (dozens of regional chains collapsed into a duopoly regulators twice refused to let merge, both survivors now PE-owned), while gifts has barely consolidated at all outside a few niches (airport concessions, the greeting-card duopoly).[5]
• Used merchandise (4595) is the most fragmented retail industry in the federal data — a vast long tail plus millions of individual resellers, with standout consolidators in for-profit thrift, franchising, the two dominant nonprofits, and the digital-resale leaders.[6]
• Other miscellaneous (4599) spans the whole range — genuinely concentrated pet (PE-built giants), moderately concentrated manufactured-home dealing (with far more concentrated manufacturing upstream), a barbell in art, and textbook-fragmented everything-else.[7]

The through-line across the subsector: in most children, the toughest competition comes from outside the code — mass merchants, Amazon, and (for tobacco) convenience stores set price and take volume, while specialty survivors compete on curation, experience, exclusivity, and — uniquely for thrift and pet — supply and services the discounters can't cheaply replicate.

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9. Risks

The risks rhyme across the subsector, with child-specific spikes:

• Discretionary cyclicality and trade-down — the master risk for most children; consumers cut specialty spending first. (Used merchandise is the notable counter-cyclical exception.)[2][6]
• Amazon and mass-merchant price pressure on gross margin — near-universal, and mostly booked under other codes so it doesn't even show up in this subsector's own statistics.[2][5][7]
• Tariffs and import-sourcing cost inflation — universal, since nearly every child imports most product; hardest where pass-through is weak.[4][5][7]
• Inventory, markdown, and supply risk — season- and trend-driven goods (toys, gifts, florals) invite markdowns, while thrift and used-goods models are constrained instead by the supply of intake.[4][6]
• Format-obsolescence and secular decline within the mix — sewing big-boxes, news dealers, central-office demand, and burial memorials each shrink structurally; operators that don't shift mix fade with the product.[2][3][5][7]
• Leverage risk — PE debt on thin-margin retail (the JOANN warning; the office duopoly; the buyout-owned pet chains).[2][5][7]
• Category-specific legal/reputational exposure — firearms (sporting), toy recalls, cannabis banking and 280E taxation, art provenance and money-laundering scrutiny.[2][7]
• Classification and disclosure risk (the subsector's defining data problem). 459 fuses unrelated businesses, so level-wide statistics and peer comparisons are close to useless; federal data report no subsector profit, e-commerce share, same-store sales, or ownership, and miss most of the microbusiness layer. You must underwrite the specific child — and inside 4591 and 4599, the specific niche — never the label.[1][7]

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10. How to invest & outlook

How to invest depends entirely on which child you want, and the routes could hardly be more different.

Public equity reaches roughly three niches cleanly, and the rest obliquely. The clean listed choices cluster in sporting goods (DKS, ASO, SPWH), pet (CHWY, WOOF), and recommerce (SVV, WINA, REAL, TDUP, with EBAY adjacent). One-off small caps cover the gift half of office/gift (BBW) and the flower channel (FLWS). Everywhere else the exposure is indirect — the office-supply duopoly's leveraged loans and bonds; branded suppliers; foreign-listed makers; OTC cannabis operators; manufactured-home manufacturers and land-lease REITs; and diversified retailers where the category is immaterial to the parent. Screen every "proxy" for the share of revenue genuinely tied to the category, and remember there is no 459 ETF — a subsector basket would blend six unrelated markets into noise.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Private markets are where most of the subsector actually lives — and where four of the six children are reachable primarily or only privately. The well-worn paths: buy an established niche retailer (often with a Small Business Administration, or SBA, acquisition loan) and improve it; franchise or build a concept; roll up independents in a fragmenting niche (florists, thrift, pool, bullion, gift shops); own retail real estate or a manufactured-home community; or provide the capital, inventory finance, and software that serve small retailers — including private-credit/BDC lending to the leveraged chains, often the most direct way to reach the PE-owned children. Federal size standards confirm the character: essentially every operator except the national chains and the two large public pet names qualifies as a small business.[2][5][6][7]

Outlook (a judgment, not a forecast). Expect modest nominal growth for the subsector overall, with sharply uneven fortunes among the children — and no single 459 growth rate or multiple is meaningful, which our federal file rightly supports no basis for. The base case by child: used merchandise is the standout structural grower (value-seeking, sustainability, and tariff-driven price gaps, several times faster than clothing retail); pet (inside 4599) grows steadily on premiumization and services; sporting goods grows modestly as scaled omnichannel leaders press their advantages; books and florists hold roughly flat as durable niches inside declining channels; office supplies is a restructuring-and-cash-flow story, not growth; and gifts, art, and the residual niches cycle with discretionary spending, tourism, and wealth. Demand entered 2026 soft, with card-spend panels reading the discretionary categories down year over year on tariffs, inflation, and middle-income caution.[2]

The one durable lesson this subsector teaches a general investor: the receipts and the listed equity are not in the same place, and the "miscellaneous retail" label hides six different games. Two-fifths of the money is in a catch-all bucket whose only clean public entry is pet; a third is in sporting-goods-and-hobby whose public menu is really just big-box sporting goods; and the genuine growth is tucked into resale and pet. The returns here come from picking the right child, the right niche, and the right operator — never from the subsector. For the full company-level analysis of each slice, read the child primers: 4591 (sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument), 4592 (books and news), 4593 (florists), 4594 (office supplies, stationery, and gift), 4595 (used merchandise), and 4599 (other miscellaneous retailers).

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Sources

Synthesized from the six child primers plus our ground-truth federal figures for this level; numbering is local to this page. The child primers carry the underlying company filings, County Business Patterns, SBA size standards, and third-party market data (IBISWorld, APPA, Art Basel & UBS, ThredUp Resale Report, and others) behind the figures cited here.

1. U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Economic Census — Concentration by Largest Firms, NAICS 459" (Histometrics ingested ground-truth stats for this level: receipts ~$383.68B; 145,400 firms; CR4 13.4% / CR8 20.1% / CR20 30.6% / CR50 39.3%; HHI 74.5). https://data.census.gov/table/ECNSIZE2022.EC2200SIZECONCEN
2. Histometrics, Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Retailers (U.S.) — NAICS 4591 (child rollup primer; carries the 45911/45912/45913/45914 Economic Census and County Business Patterns figures, the DICK'S/Academy/Sportsman's roster, and its citations).
3. Histometrics, Book Retailers and News Dealers (U.S.) — NAICS 4592 (child primer; carries the 45921/459210 Economic Census and County Business Patterns figures, the Barnes & Noble / Books-A-Million ownership detail, and its citations).
4. Histometrics, Florists (United States) — NAICS 4593 (child primer; carries the 45931/459310 Economic Census and County Business Patterns figures, the 1-800-Flowers / Teleflora / FTD roster, floral-gifting market data, and its citations).
5. Histometrics, Office Supplies, Stationery, and Gift Retailers (U.S.) — NAICS 4594 (child rollup primer; carries the 45941/45942 Economic Census and County Business Patterns figures, the Staples/ODP and Build-A-Bear detail, Circana office-supplies data, and its citations).
6. Histometrics, Used Merchandise Retailers (U.S.) — NAICS 4595 (child primer; carries the 45951/459510 Economic Census and County Business Patterns figures, the Savers/Winmark/RealReal/ThredUp/eBay roster, Goodwill revenue, ThredUp Resale Report, and its citations).
7. Histometrics, Other Miscellaneous Retailers (U.S.) — NAICS 4599 (child rollup primer; carries the 45991/45992/45993/45999 Economic Census figures, the Chewy/Petco roster, APPA pet-spending data, cannabis-MSO detail, and its citations).