The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has opened a new ABC store at Bennetts Creek Crossing, 3575 Bridge Road.

The store opened Friday at 10 a.m. Store hours will be 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday.

Customers will be able to browse through 2,683 square feet of retail space offering liquors, cordials and specialty items. This store will carry approximately 1,242 items.

This is the second ABC store in North Suffolk — the other is on Hampton Roads Parkway. With the opening of the newest store, Suffolk now has four ABC retail locations.

Including the Suffolk locations, ABC operates 336 stores statewide.

In deciding to open new locations, the department considers a variety of statistics about an area, including population density, sales data from other stores in the region and the distance of the proposed location from other ABC stores, according to ABC spokeswoman Jennifer Farinholt.

Suffolk officials expect the new ABC store in the Farm Fresh shopping center to contribute to the retail expansion of the North Suffolk area.

“(Shopping centers) try to line up tenants that complement each other,” Economic Development Director Kevin Hughes said earlier this year. “The goal is to have them stop at one or two of the stores. ABC aligning themselves with a supermarket really makes a lot of sense.”