Retail

AllCare Plus Pharmacy Inc. recently purchased an office building in Northborough, and will relocate its headquarters there from Worcester, according to a statement from Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates.

The city of Worcester has agreed to sell the former Worcester County Courthouse to a New Hampshire developer that specializes in historic properties for $1.2 million, according to a statement from City Manager Edward Augustus' office.

Electronic devices used to deliver hits of nicotine would be treated like cigarettes under regulations proposed Tuesday by Attorney General Maura Healey that would ban free samples and restrict sales to people at least 18 years old.

In the end, Radio Shack didn't know its own identity. In what will most likely be a major case study in business schools, the once world-famous electronics chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will close most of its Central Massachusetts stores.

An overwhelming majority of voters in our poll for the week of March 2 endorsed recent actions by Wal-Mart and Framingham-based TJX Cos., the parent of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, to increase their floor wages to $9 an hour this year.

The future of the old Spag's site on Route 9 in Shrewsbury is continuing to take shape, with two new tenants bolstering the “high end” feel that the proposed Lakeway Commons plaza brings to the neighborhood, said Jay Thomas, chairman of the Lakeway Business District Association.

The majority of small business leaders, 87 percent, are optimistic about the year ahead, according to a recent Staples' small business survey conducted online by Research Now.

A 128-year-old family-owned lumber company in Hudson has been sold to Koopman Lumber of Whitinsville and now bears the Koopman name.

Framingham-based Staples Inc. saw a steep decline in earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2014 along with weaker sales. And the office supplies retailer expects sales to continue falling in the first quarter of 2015.

After a strong holiday sales season and amid growing consumer confidence, Massachusetts small businesses experienced an average drop in sales of 24 percent during the recent wave of snowstorms, according to a new survey.