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. Michaels and JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michaels | - | +12.4% |
| 2 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | - | -100.0% |
- Michaels
- Hobby Lobby
- Tower of Games
- Fabric Hut
- Jerry's Artarama
- Harygul's Halloween Planet
- Potts N Paints
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
68 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 19 of the 68 stores (28%); 50 of the 54 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across Virginia.
- Michaels (9)
- Hobby Lobby (2)
- Tower of Games (2)
- Fabric Hut (1)
- Jerry's Artarama (1)
- Harygul's Halloween Planet (1)
- Potts N Paints (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 9
- 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 5
- 3 Hobby Lobby 2
- 4 Tower of Games 2
- 5 Fabric Hut 1
- 6 Yarn Matters 1
- 7 Sarah's Thimble Quilt Shoppe 1
- 8 Wild Wings Nature Store 1
- 9 Liberty Hill Needleworks 1
- 10 The Village Knittery 1
- 11 The Yarn Club 1
- 12 Colonial Custom Framing 1
- 13 The Bead Store 1
- 14 That Art Store 1
- 15 Bernstein's Gallery 1
- 16 Southern Magnolia Monograms 1
- 17 Lilac Lane DIY studio 1
- 18 Leather arts 1
- 19 Kascade, LLC 1
- 20 Gilded Shores Sea Gems and Art 1
- 21 Clean Cut Graphics 1
- 22 Blue Dragonfly Farm 1
- 23 Harygul Halloween Planet 1
- 24 Mainely Coasters 1
- 25 Upsy Daisy Creative Reuse Center 1
- 26 Crochet Corners 1
- 27 Dyeing To Stitch 1
- 28 The Crafty Nurse VA 1
- 29 Ocean Art 1
- 30 Jerry's Artarama 1
- 31 Harygul's Halloween Planet 1
- 32 Potts N Paints 1
- 33 Wine & Cake Hobbies 1
- 34 Color Me Mine 1
- 35 A Different Touch 1
- 36 Sunshine Quilt Corner 1
- 37 Mother of Yarns 1
- 38 Collectors Cove 1
- 39 GLaZENFYRE: A Paint-It-Yourself Pottery Studio 1
- 40 Great Bridge Frame & Art 1
- 41 The Booster Box 1
- 42 The Golden Needle Co 1
- 43 Forge & Factions 1
- 44 757 Creative ReUse Center 1
- 45 Paint on Pottery 1
- 46 The Reef Room 1
- 47 Hartung Gallery and Art Supplies 1
- 48 Artee Fabrics and Home 1
- 49 Walls Alive Inc 1
- 50 Dale's Train Station 1
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