Retail

Smoothie King, a Texas-based food and beverage company with more than 1,350 stores internationally, is opening its first Massachusetts storefront in Maynard.

Worcester Business Journal has opened the registration window for its fifth annual Business of Cannabis forum on July 20 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

Shop owner Sheri Putnam, together with her husband Bob Putnam and Design Coordinator Susan Krysinski, maintain an ever-rotating stock of farmhouse-styled merchandise that all but bursts off the shelves.

When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has become an unremarkable part of the state economy.

Smaller cannabis companies are white labeling and collaborating as they try to survive a fierce pricing competition against large corporations in an increasingly saturated market.

Family-owned Koopman Lumber has opened its 12th location in Dennis, its first on Cape Cod.

RK Centers has purchased a Stop & Shop-anchored Framingham plaza for $17.4 million, three months after it was traded in March for $15.7 million.

Millis cannabis firm CommCan is consolidating its operations, having closed its medical-only Southborough dispensary and transferred that license to a joint adult-use and medical dispensary in Rehoboth.

Barnes & Noble’s newest MetroWest location will open in Natick on June 14, filling the void left when the chain’s Framingham store closed earlier this year.

The Worcester Red Sox are partnering with Canal District and Green Island businesses to encourage fans to patronize businesses in the neighborhood by offering discounts and reward points.