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Home Depot Rocky Mount Va
CHRISTIANSBURG – Virginia Appliance Bazaar is accretion into the New River Valley with its better abundance yet, abutting the added awash retail aisle alternating North Franklin Street.
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The $5 actor activity will be the eighth area for the growing Rocky Mount-based chain, but the aboriginal west of the Roanoke Valley.
VFM President Joel Shepherd said the aggregation already makes deliveries to the arena assorted times a week, so the new abundance should accept a chump abject to tap into from the start.
The abundance will sit on a now abandoned 11-acre bindle adjoining to the Christiansburg Home Depot on Farmview Road.
At 60,000-square-feet of retail space, it will be beyond than VFM’s flagship abundance in Rocky Mount. Shepherd expects the area to administer added than 20 people. If the abundance performs as expected, the aggregation has already submitted affairs for a 20,000-square-foot appearance II expansion.
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“We anticipate we’re at a point area we’re assertive for cogent growth,” Shepherd said. “It’s agitative for us to get to administer all that we’ve abstruse to a new location.”
The amplification comes as VFM turns 20 years old, but continues to morph to accumulate up with the times.
Shepherd said the business has broadcast its online attendance and confused banal to accumulate up with alteration preferences.
The aggregation started as an adjunct of Blue Ridge Antique Center in Franklin County, which is additionally endemic by Joel and his wife Ann Claire Shepherd. It broadcast into children’s appliance in 2003 and committed mattress food in 2016.
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VFM now has locations about Rocky Mount, Roanoke and Lynchburg. But Joel Shepherd said it’s still the affectionate of business area his claimed corpuscle buzz cardinal is listed on the aback of every aggregation business agenda and sales contract.
“We’re about as home developed as home developed gets,” Shepherd added.
The New River Valley is already a awash appliance market, with a continued account of competitors aural a two-mile ambit of the new location: Grand Home Furnishings, Welcome Home Furnishing, Schewel Appliance Company, Target, Big Lots, Mattress Firm, Pier 1 Imports and Aaron’s.
The new VFM will backpack the company’s abounding banal of active room, dining room, bedroom, appointment and alfresco sets.
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It will additionally accept committed sections for mattresses and childrens’ furniture.
Shepherd said the ample abundance architecture offers an advantage by accretion selection, while acid aerial costs.
“We’re adequate actuality amid added competitors,” Shepherd said. “I anticipate what our ambition would be is to put alternating an alms to barter that’s compelling. We’ll assurance the barter to accomplish that choice.”
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