Comments on: Local coffee shop Sacred Grounds closing next week

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:00:05 +0000

Chris,

Thanks for posting about the closing of Sacred Grounds. I went there a couple of years ago and I enjoyed it. I was planning to meet someone in Richmond next week, and I was looking up directions to Sacred Grounds...and I found your blog.

If it weren't for you, we would have met outside a closed shop...and we would have been forced to settle for Starbucks.

Your post was also well-written, by the way.

Thanks,
Tyler

By: Chris Hardie's Weblog

Chris Hardie's Weblog — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:58:45 +0000

Local coffee shop Charlie's closes its doors

As they are seemingly wont to do, another locally owned coffee shop, Charlie's Coffee Bar and Gallery, has closed its doors. Sigh.
This is not an isolated incident. This is not a bump in the road on the way to a better Richmond. These things must n...

By: JH

JH — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:39:26 +0000

I wouldn't doubt if the opening of Starbucks had some effect. Starbucks is notorious for deliberately locating new shops very near a thriving locally owned coffee shop in order to siphon off business and ultimately kill the locals. They are, I'll just say it, the Wal-Marts of coffee shops. Maybe there's a double boycott in order here -- a ruinous business on ruined ground.