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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 »
Store block on 9 Ave. latest victims of rising rents
The eastern side of Ninth Avenue between 17th and 18th streets, where Chelsea meets the Meatpacking District, has ‹ until now ‹ withstood the crosscurrents of change in the area.It is a place where low-income... more »
Southern food hits the spot, not the wallet
In the midst of monotonous franchises and high-priced Manhattan menus, it's sometimes difficult to find a restaurant that has a passion for its food, customers and ambiance at a reasonable price.But search hard enough, and... more »
‘A Place to Come and Relax’
He wasn't sure about the colorful garden decor or the floral-scented air, but when my 4-year-old son laid eyes on the Fluffernutter, he was sold on Granlund's Restaurant and Gift Shop in Yucaipa.What, you might... more »
Some unique Fifth Avenue stores appear on the way out
They're in limbo, and it's not the dancing kind.When four retail shops on Fifth Avenue South received their lease renewals this year, there was an unpleasant surprise: a 90-day termination clause added to the one-year... more »
Retailers’ Struggles Mean Lean Times at the Mall
Weak consumer spending is pushing struggling retailers close to or over the edge, and that is starting to hurt shopping-mall owners.The latest retail casualty is Linens 'n Things Inc., a 500-store home-accessory chain, which is... more »
