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‘Shop Burlington County First’ Aims to Keep Dollars Local

Mount Holly, PA - Burlington County and its partners are open for business. Officials are ready to roll out their buy-local campaign to promote county businesses, including downtown Main Street shopping centers and other stores,... more »

Sea Bright: Boutique in a Boat Shop

Sea Bright, NJ - After a rough off-season that included severe damage from Hurricane Sandy, the owners of Sea Bright's Angler's Marina & Beach Boutique, Fred Leonardis and his wife, Elizabeth, worked hard to reopen... more »

Woman Takes Chance On Store

Fort Dodge, IA - Often people in the corporate work-world want to start their own business. That was certainly true for one Fort Dodge woman who left her job to pursue a dream. "I love... more »

Stationery Store is Write for Customers

Reading, UK - IT HAS been a feature of the town centre for 21 years and now Rymans has been labelled as a shop its customers cannot live without.The stationery store in Duke Street has... more »

Band T-shirts, Posters Drive Penny Lane For More than 40 Years

Springfield, IL - You can tell just by looking at the storefront that Penny Lane is different than other Springfield gift shops.Look there, in the window is a remote-controlled zombie doll. And a "Hippies Use... more »

Small Business Administration Recognizes Brown & Hopkins Country Store

Chepachet, RI - Elizabeth Yuill, owner and shopkeeper of the historic Brown & Hopkins Country Store in Chepachet, has been named by the U.S. Small Business Administration as one of its 2013 Rhode Island small-business... more »

Oxford Business Hosts Cash Mob To Attract New Customers

Oxford, KS - Many locally-owned businesses are trying to reinvent themselves as the economy changes. One of the newer techniques is to have a cash mob that encourages people to come together on a certain... more »

Pottery That Brings Vermont Charm to Home and Garden

Boston, MA - There is nothing quite as magical and charming as rural New England, and Zoe Zilian, founder of Farmhouse Pottery, can help to bring a little bit of that authentic rustic feel to... more »

Click Boutique Revives Hattiesburg Downtown Retail District

Hattiesburg, MS - If anyone was at Click Boutique on April 27, 2011, they would have thought they were on the set of the popular AMC series "Mad Men."The show is based on a 1960s... more »

Hinckley Gift Shop Scoops Top Retail Accolade

Hinckley, UK - A HINCKLEY shop has been crowned the best new gift shop in the north of the country. Marmalade Meringue, based in Castle Street, won the Independent Gift Retailer of the year, Best... more »