Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked bookstore 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. Heaven & Earth and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heaven & Earth | - | +4.1% |
| 2 | Barnes & Noble | - | -0.9% |
- Barnes & Noble
- 2nd & Charles
- Comic Kings
- Atomic Comics Emporium I
- Local Heroes
- Heaven & Earth
- Atlantis Games & Comics
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
48 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 15 of the 48 stores (31%); 33 of the 38 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across Virginia.
- Barnes & Noble (6)
- 2nd & Charles (2)
- Comic Kings (1)
- Atomic Comics Emporium I (1)
- Local Heroes (1)
- Heaven & Earth (3)
- Atlantis Games & Comics (2)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 6
- 2 Heaven & Earth 3
- 3 2nd & Charles 2
- 4 Atlantis Games & Comics 2
- 5 Book Exchange 2
- 6 Comic Kings 1
- 7 Yorktown Bookshop 1
- 8 Comic Cubicle 1
- 9 Paperbacks Ink 1
- 10 Jeannie's Used Books 1
- 11 Eleanor's Norfolk 1
- 12 Amazing Fantasy Comics 1
- 13 Book Owl Bookstore 1
- 14 The Full Cup 1
- 15 Trilogy Comics 1
- 16 The Way We Were Bookshop 1
- 17 The Printed Word Bookstore 1
- 18 The Big Free Bookstore 1
- 19 Moore Expressions 1
- 20 Dog Eared Books 1
- 21 Read Books 1
- 22 Matthews EVMS Bookstore 1
- 23 Atomic Comics Emporium I 1
- 24 Local Heroes 1
- 25 Books-A-Million 1
- 26 The Book Exchange 1
- 27 World's Best Comics 1
- 28 Novel Grounds 1
- 29 Prince Books 1
- 30 Smith Discount Books 1
- 31 Hampton University Collegiate Bookstore 1
- 32 Island Bookstore 1
- 33 SeeWhich Books 1
- 34 Captains Locker 1
- 35 House of Consciousness 1
- 36 JMJ Catholic Books and Articles 1
- 37 Beach Books 1
- 38 Zeno's Books 1
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