Retail

The Carytown bakery has started to welcome customers into a new cafe housed in an adjacent storefront formerly occupied by video game shop Bits + Pixels.

“It is a wine shop, first and foremost. But I was like, “If I have to sell food. I might as well sell all the things that I want.’ Interesting, imported, hard-to-find things…fun things that you might not be able to find everywhere,” owner Annie Barrow said. 

The 5,000-square-foot venue offers a 33-foot-by-33-foot “free-roam” arena, a space dedicated to virtual escape rooms as well as four treadmill-like stations that offer a range of different games.

The chain is taking over the recently shuttered Richmond Camera location. It’ll be Warby Parker’s second store in the region.

Grocery Outlet, which buys up other companies’ excess inventory and sells those products at a discount in its stores, plans to open in a former gym in the Oxbridge Square Shopping Center.

The shop, which first opened more than decade ago as the south-of-the-river outpost of Once Upon A Vine, was purchased in recent weeks by Chantel Crocker.

The judge also approved the sale of LL Flooring’s massive distribution facility in Sandston for $104 million. The buyer is data center giant QTS.

“It’s a tiny store but it’s a European-styled store. It isn’t packed or overwhelming to shop,” owner Kristina Holt said of her new 80-square-foot shop.

The convenience store chain’s new outpost comes as the first piece of completed development on an assemblage once planned as a location of local flower shop Strange’s Florist, but that is now being carved up and sold off.

In a brief, previously unpublished interview with Richmond BizSense in June, Tom Sullivan explained some of the goals of his pursuit to acquire control of the publicly traded Henrico-based retailer.