Trends · data through July 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Iceflower tracks 47 stores from 23 art craft hobby stores chains in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. Wild Birds Unlimited grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Michaels and JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
23
Tracked stores
47
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby stores 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. Wild Birds Unlimited and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Wild Birds Unlimited logo Wild Birds Unlimited ▲1 +0.7%
2 M Michaels logo Michaels - -2.2%
3 J JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores logo JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores - -17.0%
4 S Spirit Halloween logo Spirit Halloween ▼1 -72.5%
  • Michaels
  • Hobby Lobby
  • JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores
  • Tower of Games
  • Wild Birds Unlimited
  • HobbyTown
  • Spirit Halloween
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

47 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Michaels (11)
  • Hobby Lobby (2)
  • JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores (4)
  • Tower of Games (2)
  • Wild Birds Unlimited (5)
  • HobbyTown (2)
  • Spirit Halloween (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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