Stores and restaurants in Massachusetts would be barred from giving customers single-use plastic bags under a bill that cleared a legislative committee on Thursday and would align state law with local policies adopted from Northampton to Nantucket.
A Rhode Island real estate firm says it will spend more than $100 million to redevelop 29 locations of the southern New England retail chain Benny's, which is closing its doors this year.
Small businesses account for millions of jobs in America. The Small Business Administration says there were 5.73 million employer firms in the U.S. in 2012. Businesses with fewer that 20 employees made up 89.6 percent. The SBA says when you add in the number of non-employer businesses there were 23 million in 2013 and the share of U.S. b...
According to South Coast Today.com, the city of New Bedford is “looking to ban synthetic drugs or man-made, chemically laced substances, known as K2, spice or potpourri from local store shelves.”
On Tuesday, about 30 stores at Wareham Crossing on Cranberry Highway were closed for several hours due to a failed electrical connector at a nearby Eversource substation.
We have not heard if closings will include the one in Fairhaven and the one in North Dartmouth, but we will keep our fingers crossed and hope that both stay in business. Hopefully, our Fairhaven and North Dartmouth locations are not affected by the several closures announced by this giant department store chain.
On Wednesday, Macy's announced that it will close 36 stores in the United States in early 2016. Two of these Macy’s stores are located in the western part of the state of Massachusetts.