Retailers aim for share of rebate checks

Prepare yourself.Tax rebates intended to jolt recession-wary consumers into spending won't start arriving in mailboxes until next month, but tax-rebate advertising has begun. And retailers are only warming up."We will get inundated when those checks... more »

Canterbury Shoppe offers variety of items

If there's a need for a gift at any time, for any occasion - there's a good chance the Canterbury Shoppe in Naperville will have what you're looking for.Gail Andrews, who has operated the downtown... more »

Wildflower jewelry linked to Jefferson

If you'd like to celebrate the 265th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth today, you might consider his gifts to botany.That's what jewelry designer Rebecca Worth did in creating her Twinleaf collection.Living in the Richmond area... more »

Highway 74 candy store expected to stick it out through construction

For more than 40 years, Highway 74 commuters and hikers with a taste for everything from salty-sweet rock candy to homemade peanut butter cookies have paid homage to the Ortega Country Cottage Candy Store and... more »

Wearin’ of the green is growing

What shall we wear today? Our seaweed T-shirt and bamboo jeans? Or our organic-cotton skirt, fair-trade silk blouse and sweater of merino wool from free-range sheep raised in the Southern Alps of New Zealand?For eco-fashionistas,... more »

Life-long loves turn lucrative for shop owner

Parowan - Nestled at the back of the Affordable Treasures antique shop in Parowan is Renee's Place, a quaint, custom gemstone jewelry store and new and used book shop.Owner Renee Knoblauch said the combination store... more »

New business strip to open

Kimball Twp. -- The Sawmill Commons strip mall at 4731 Lapeer Road is starting to come together.The first shop at the mall, The Be Je Salon and Espresso Bar, opened in mid-January, but things otherwise... more »

Retailers post sluggish sales in March

New York—With little money left after buying food and fuel, American shoppers handed most retailers their most dismal March in 13 years.As retailers reported sales results on Thursday, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp.... more »

For the Five Thieves, and their customers, times of change

When the moving signs went up in the windows at All The Best Fine Foods in Rosedale this month, it is safe to say the shop's customers freaked out."It caused immediate widespread panic and stir,"... more »

Waiting to be discovered

The retailers at the Main Street Marketplace in Doylestown have a running joke: How many people will come in and say they didn't know the stores were there?"Every day, we laugh about how many people... more »