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Good Cause for a good cause

Berlin, CT - An agency goes into business for a good cause and provides life altering gifts to consumers and employment opportunities to people with gifts of their own at the Good Cause Gifts Shop.Futures,... more »

Girls Turning Duct Tape Creations Into Cash

Call it the lemonade stand of the 21st century. Three young South Florida girls have turned something you find in the garage into a small business. Lexie, Mori, and Hailey, ages 10, 11, and 12,... more »

Game store owner brings back ’80s classics

Gardendale, AL — Luke Fielding calls his business an experiment.The Game Shop, located in the Garden Shopping Center on Main Street in Gardendale, is a unique store with relics from years past, mostly from the... more »

Shady Maple Celebrates 40th Anniversary

East Earl Township, PA - From its start as a small roadside stand to what it is today, the Shady Maple Farm Market sure has changed over the years.Now, the family-owned business, which has grown... more »

Big doings for LittleBits in Natick and Wellesley

Natick, MA - As big box stores prey on more and more independent businesses, neighborhood establishments may soon be classified as an endangered species, if they haven't been already.But some stores have not only survived... more »

Museum makes room in gift shop

Queens, NY - In an effort to boost business for local artists, the Queens Museum of Art is clearing a space in its gift shop for Queens-made goods.The Flushing museum is on the hunt for... more »

Building their own Treehouse

Corpus Christi, TX - When the gift shop at the Art Center of Corpus Christi closed recently, seven local artists took it hard. They also took it as an opportunity to open a new gallery."We... more »

Talking Business: Castle Rock grad opens flower and sweets shop in hometown

Castle Rock, WA - In a Castle Rock shop where ice cream and milk shakes were served more than 40 years ago, Penny Stanley is dishing up sweet concoctions once again.Stanley opened Blossoms and Sweets... more »

Pals & partners: Gift Chixx is their second career

Pinecrest, FL - Though Shelly Brodie was having a successful career as a CPA and Karen Sklawer was busy selling framed artwork to the hotel industry, the two longtime friends both had the itch to... more »

Swiss Colony hopes for sweet retail sales

Monroe, WI - It's been years since Swiss Colony's chalet-style stores and kiosks disappeared from shopping centers. The Monroe-based company isn't bringing them back, but it has launched an initiative to put some of its... more »