Card Shops in North Carolina

North Carolina's 223 listings split 121 independent to 102 chain — a 46% chain share, the highest of any state on the Eastern Seaboard — and 31 of its 94 listed cities have no local shop at all.

Among the independents the coast leads the Piedmont: Wilmington holds 10, ahead of Raleigh on 9 and Charlotte on 7, with Fayetteville level at 7.

Classification runs strongly toward games: 185 trading card games against 46 sports cards, 8 both. Part of that is the chain weighting, since chain locations are filed under TCG throughout the directory.

Every North Carolina entry carries an address and a map link; 216 carry a phone number, 195 post hours, and 179 link to a website. 147 have a Google rating attached, which is what the ranking on each list page is built from. Stock, buy prices and event nights are not fields in this dataset, so nothing here can tell you what is in a case today. 137 of the 195 shops with posted hours run all seven days. Buried under comics and toys in Wilmington (4.9 stars from 195 reviews), Retroscape - Gaming & Soda Lounge in Wilmington (4.9 stars from 185 reviews), and Checkpoint Games in Shelby (5.0 stars from 43 reviews) lead the ranking.

107 North Carolina listings are thin records kept out of search results — a high count, driven almost entirely by the chain side. Of the rest, 216 carry a phone number and 147 a Google rating. 137 of the 195 posted schedules run all seven days.