Retail

More than 80 applicants have applied to the Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce board of directors to fill the vacant CEO position.

Leominster Credit Union, Reliant Medical Group and law firm Fletcher Tilton are among the firms announcing new hires and promotions.

Two small retail buildings on Route 20 in Marlborough have sold for $3.6 million, a price per square foot that the broker says sets a high mark for the I-495 market.

Wegmans didn't quite know what to expect opening its Natick Mall location Sunday. The chain has never opened a store quite like the one replacing a former JCPenney there.

Twin Cities Plaza, anchored by a Hannaford supermarket and straddling the Fitchburg-Leominister line, is undergoing an overhaul for a more modern look and landscaping.

The owner of Esther's Fashion Paradise, who pleaded guilty last year to a food stamp scheme worth nearly $300,000, was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in federal prison.

Nineteen businesses have submitted an application for a marijuana license and more than 150 more applications are in the works with 38 days until the Cannabis Control Commission can issue the first Massachusetts pot license.

At the beginning of next year, Worcester will become the 110th municipality in Massachusetts to enact some type of flavored tobacco ban after the city Board of Health voted to adopt regulations prohibiting the sale of the products in convenience stores.

Banning a convenience store from selling flavored tobacco products to a 21-year-old adult while that same adult can purchase flavored alcohol at a liquor store would create a disparate retail environment, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce said in a letter to the Board of Health.

Holliston-based hockey equipment retailer Pure Hockey has acquired two retail stores from Bauer Hockey, one of the sport's largest equipment manufacturers.