- December 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
A Northern Virginia business owner says he’s watching his business’ reputation disintegrate before it has even opened amid a racial controversy involving a different shop with a similar name.
Adam Oberheim said he’s invested his life savings into Exotic Aquatics and has been preparing to open the fish store in Springfield early next year.
But he said he now fears his business could be over even before he opens the doors.
“It’s been devastating, you know, emotionally for the last few days over this,” Oberheim told News4.
He said hundreds of people are getting his business, Exotic Aquatics, mixed up with another business, Exotics & Aquatics, in Roanoke, which is more than 200 miles away.
That business is in the midst of an internet firestorm after video shows a black woman, who was a customer at the Roanoke shop, in a heated encounter with the white owner of Exotics & Aquatics.
The woman posted the video last week after the…
