Hobbycraft to open new store in Exeter this summer

Hobbycraft to open new store in Exeter this September

Hobbycraft, the UK’s largest arts and crafts retailer, is pleased to announce the opening of its store in Rydon Lane Retail Park, Exeter, on Wednesday 1st September. To celebrate this new store, Hobbycraft is also hosting a grand opening event on Saturday 4th September at 9.00am, with product offers and exciting activities, including free goody bags to the first 100 customers.

Hobbycraft Exeter will create 19 new jobs in the local area and is currently searching for the best crafting experts to inspire customers to get creative to fill the roles. These roles offer the Exeter community the opportunity to work for the fourth Best Big Company to work for in the UK and the third Best Retail Company to work for in the UK, accolades that Hobbycraft were awarded in May 2021 by Best Companies.

Store Manager, Tina Hippsley comments: “After a tough year for many, we are really looking forward to opening the doors to our Exeter store and sharing our passion for arts and crafts with the local community. We have seen more people than ever take up crafting during the COVID-19 pandemic and we want to encourage locals to come down to their new store and shop with us safely. After working at Hobbycraft for 8 years, we truly put our customers at the heart of everything we do and look forward to providing Exeter customers with the ultimate retail experience, combined with fantastic crafting products at great prices.”

The safety and wellbeing of Hobbycraft’s colleagues, customers and communities remains a priority and the Exeter store will open with the below guidelines in place:

Sanitisation points where customers are able to clean hands, baskets, and trolley handles
Throughout the store, there will be signage to encourage social distancing
Checkout colleagues are screened, appropriately spaced, and recommend contactless payments where possible
In England, Hobbycraft recommend that customers wear face coverings whilst instore unless exempt

The Exeter store will offer customers a wide range of crafting products and will also have a dedicated Custom Crafting area. Custom Crafting is a new inspirational crafting area that introduces the digital personalisation Cricut tool to customers. The space is designed to inspire shoppers as well as encourage them to try out products and crafting techniques. The retailer launched the areas as a trial in early 2019 and it was such a hit Hobbycraft are now installing a Custom Crafting area is all of their new stores.

To find out more information please visit the new Hobbycraft store at Rydon Lane Retail Park,

Digby Drive, Exeter, EX2 7HX from Wednesday 1st September 2021 or visit the Hobbycraft website at www.hobbycraft.co.uk or tweet the store @Hobbycraft_EXT. The new Exeter store will be open Monday to Friday 9.00am to 9.00pm, Saturday 9.00am to 7.00pm and Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm.