Retail

New York-based Northeast Grocery, Inc., parent company of Price Chopper and Market 32 supermarkets, has named John Persons as the company’s new chief operating officer and Mike Miller as chief administrative officer, both newly-created positions at the company.

Middleborough-based home-good retailer, Christmas Tree Shops will liquidate all of its stores unless a buyer for the company surfaces within a week.

Vintage Rebel Curiosity Shop in Leicester refers to itself as “We’re one of those ‘don't know you need it until you see it’ kind of stores.”

Natick-based Stonegate Group and Needham-based Nauset Construction broke ground on the Stonegate St. Patrick Redevelopment on Tuesday. The project, at the site of the former St. Patrick’s School in Natick, is a mixed-use development.

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.