Retail

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In a brief, previously unpublished interview with Richmond BizSense in June, Tom Sullivan explained some of the goals of his pursuit to acquire control of the publicly traded Henrico-based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

The deal was disclosed just three days after the bankrupt company’s public announcement that it was pivoting away from the possibility of a sale and into full-scale liquidation and shutdown.

Two weeks after it sought bankruptcy protection to shutter some stores and find a buyer that might keep the rest of the chain afloat, the company formerly known as Lumber Liquidators has now pivoted into a full-scale liquidation.

Shortly after it secured a storefront in Henrico, a chain of stores that sells returned Amazon orders has already lined up a second location elsewhere in the region.

The facility, which was one of the largest indoor shooting ranges in the country when it opened 12 years ago, said it is closing due to “market volatility, inflation and other factors.”