Metro by metro
The leading art craft hobby store chains in every South Carolina metro area
Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Hobby Lobby leads in all 7 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in South Carolina as a whole, Michaels stands out in 3 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Michaels
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Greenville, SC 1× · Charleston, SC 1.8× · Columbia, SC 1.1×
Not enough tracked stores: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Florence, SC · Sumter, SC
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Charlotte, NC (SC part) · Hilton Head Island, SC · Myrtle Beach, SC · Spartanburg, SC
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Hobby Lobby
#1 in all 7 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Florence, SC · Sumter, SC
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to South Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in South Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in South Carolina and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of South Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in South Carolina. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Hobby Lobby and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby Lobby | - | +10.3% |
| 2 | Michaels | - | -3.1% |
| 3 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | - | -100.0% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- The Side Deck
- Xtreme RC Hobby and Himoto Distributors
- Grand Slam Cards Rock Hill
- Cheerful TCG LLC
- Heroes and Champions
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
137 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 57 of the 137 stores (42%); 76 of the 83 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, against 3% across the United States.
- Hobby Lobby (27)
- Michaels (17)
- The Side Deck (1)
- Xtreme RC Hobby and Himoto Distributors (1)
- Grand Slam Cards Rock Hill (1)
- Cheerful TCG LLC (1)
- Heroes and Champions (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Hobby Lobby 27
- 2 Michaels 17
- 3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 9
- 4 Artist & Craftsman Supply 2
- 5 Rose Arbor Fabrics 2
- 6 AR Workshop 2
- 7 Ed's Hobby Shop 2
- 8 Vinyl Tyme 1
- 9 New Brookland Railroad and Hobby 1
- 10 Mud Ceramic Studio 1
- 11 Craft-DIY 1
- 12 Folly Fossils N Art 1
- 13 All Fired Up Studio 1
- 14 The Hobby Connection 1
- 15 Suburban Paint Company 1
- 16 Nancy Bandel Quilts LLC 1
- 17 The Collaboration Station 1
- 18 Fabric Emporium 1
- 19 House of Fabrics 1
- 20 Glassie Ladies Stained Glass Studio 1
- 21 Not Just Gamin' 1
- 22 Spools Quilt & Stitchery 1
- 23 Stitching Fox 1
- 24 Shine Daily Vinyl Market 1
- 25 The Great Frame Up 1
- 26 Creative Sewing Machine Center 1
- 27 Jessamine Quilt Shop 1
- 28 Upstate Speedway 1
- 29 Blue Heron Stitchery 1
- 30 Birds of a Feather 1
- 31 Print 2 Press 1
- 32 SpecterGames 1
- 33 Rewined 1
- 34 Elementgaming 1
- 35 Palmetto Yarn Shoppe 1
- 36 Panda's Crossing 1
- 37 Costume Curio 1
- 38 Fire And Pine 1
- 39 The Legacy 1
- 40 Needlepoint Junction 1
- 41 Blue Goose Art Supply 1
- 42 The Pink Monogram 1
- 43 Coastal Sports Cards of Hartsville 1
- 44 Barefoot Needleart 1
- 45 PepperJack Pottery 1
- 46 SewEndipitous 1
- 47 ReCraft Creative Reuse Center 1
- 48 Beaufort River Glass 1
- 49 Bennetts Frame and Art Express 1
- 50 People Places & Quilts 1
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