Tag: retail

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Catalogs, those glossy paper-and-ink offerings of outdoor apparel, kitchenware and fruit baskets, are not yet headed for the recycling bin of history. Until recently, the future appeared grim for the mailbox-stuffers.…

Downtown Lawrence’s retail presence is shrinking, according to a recent report. The number of stores is down from 126 in 2006 to 72 in 2018, or about 43%, when numbers were collected for the city’s…

 Failures by major retail outlets are adding up so quickly that it’s become hard to keep track, let alone distin­guish whether one has more meaning than another. The bankruptcy filing of Sears is nonetheless a…

LOS ANGELES — We’ve become accustomed to restaurants with open kitchens, coffee shops with on-site roasters, taquerias where you can see the tortillas being made — but how about a shop where you can watch…