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WineStyles Now Open in Brier Creek
National wine retailer WineStyles now has a store open in Brier Creek’s Alexander Place (in addition to their Beaver Creek location). The old-world designed store aims to categorize wines not by origin, but by eight different taste categories.
Their aim is the be accessible, not a warehouse, yet offer competitive prices. A couple of customers have alerted me to this outlet, and I’ll have to check it out the next time near one of their stores.
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June 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Great. Another chain business in Raleigh to funnel our hard dollars out of the local economy.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Brier Creek opened, what, 2 years ago…and no local merchants TRIED to fill the demand for a wine store out there. Meanwhile the locally-owned Angus Barn continues to pack them in every night of the week while national chain Sullivans has its lulls.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Fact of the matter is the store is a franchise that is locally owned. The owners live here in the Brier Creek area and support the local economy.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Hard for many local wine shops to compete with a national chain. Even Carolina Wine Co. is lacking in its offerings and its gigantic. I love helping the local business too but when you start talking differences of $5-$10 per bottle it is hard to choose the locals.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am
There’s plenty of locally-owned wine shops in Durham if you want to help a fully-local business; Wine Authorities and Parker & Otis come to mind. I’m sure Raleigh has plenty, too.
This, though, is part and parcel of why my wife and I never drive down to Brier Creek. Hundreds of acres of shopping yet there’s something like, what, one or two non-franchise businesses between the various shopping centers? It’s nausea-inducing.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:50 am
This store is a franchise; however, it is locally owned by a Raleigh-native and her husband who chose to return to the area from Florida to open their store and raise their sons in a great community. For my part, with the economy the way it is…I would much rather spend my money at a store like this that is customer-friendly and knows not only my “wine styles”, but the names of my family and where I work, and cares enough to ask about them when I walk through their door. Thank you, David and Tracy, for your smiles and well-wishes, and all the best to you in 2009!