Retail

After the national retailer filed for bankruptcy last week, it published a list of more than 1,700 stores it may close by the end of March. On the chopping block are 11 local stores totaling 27,000 square feet.

When overly cheery-faced dolls seem unsympathetic, a local entrepreneur wants kids to turn to her new business: toys that frown.

A former co-owner of a Fan vintage shop has set up her own store on the edge of Jackson Ward, drawn to the area by other small independent retailers along Broad Street.

A longtime furniture company affiliated with Berkshire Hathaway is leaving Broad Street to chase potential clients into Scott’s Addition, where hundreds of new apartments have sprung up.

The women’s clothing store announced this week that it would shutter most of its stores nationwide, and its locations at two local malls have already been closed.

The Shockoe Bottom shirt brand had a huge year in 2014, including a $5 million capital raise and partnership with Nordstrom. Richmond BizSense caught up with its founders, Paul Watson and Paul Trible, to chat about the company’s first five years and plans for the next five.

Kroger cut the ribbon on an $11 million expansion in Hanover County that added more than 40,000 square feet to its existing store.

The namesake brothers of a well-known bike shop are shifting gears, and the changes have launched a new brand in the competitive Carytown bike scene.

A Museum District coffee company has outgrown its cafe space and is expanding into a Scott’s Addition warehouse to make room for its growing wholesale business.

A recent investment from a Northern Virginia firm has boosted the Shockoe Bottom shirt maker’s recent capital raise total to about $5 million.