Retail

A trade association for restaurants and business owners is lining up against a bill that would allow Wegmans to serve alcohol at its Northborough Crossing store.

Construction has begun at a new shopping center on Route 12 in Webster, according to the New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ).

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Sales surged but profits fell during 2013 at Dover Saddlery, according to preliminary data released Monday.

Retail sales are expected to increase 4.1 percent this year, according to the National Retail Federation's 2014 economic forecast.

French toy company Canal Toys recently launched its U.S. headquarters in Westborough, the company said this week.

Aiming to stabilize business costs for the next few years and provide rate relief to employers with good employee retention records, the Senate passed an unemployment insurance reform bill Thursday that got mixed reviews from business leaders.

CVS Caremark Corp. said it would no longer sell tobacco products at its 7,600 stores by Oct. 1, becoming America's first national drugstore chain to take cigarettes off the shelves.

When the average person thinks of Staples Inc., retail stores come to mind. But a major revenue component for the Framingham-based office supply company is its business-to-business contract operations, which accounted for $7 billion in sales in 2012, while the company's retail and online businesses generated a combined $12 billion. A recent change in leadership underscores the importance the company places on developing new contract business in Australia and New Zealand, as well as new markets Staples has yet to crack, according to Scott Tilghman, a Boston-based analyst who follows the company.