Jun 2, 2013

Local Entrepreneurs Talk Shop in Weekly ClassesBy Carolyn ShapiroHamptonRoads.com

Portsmouth, VA – In the middle of the third class of the Hampton Roads Retail Academy, Lynette Burrier made a confession:

She’d never liked the name of her store.

In 1994, she bought Country Flowers ‘N’ Things, a florist and gift shop in the rural Pungo area of Virginia Beach. When she moved the store to the Red Mill Commons shopping center 12 years ago, she changed it to Country Flowers & Gifts.

Still, it doesn’t suit her. “There is nothing in my store that’s country.”

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