Retail

BJ’s Wholesale Club will open its first location in Tennessee, 20 miles south of Nashville in La Vergne as part of a push for growth in 2023.

Two Central Massachusetts locations of Bed Bath & Beyond were among 149 to be shuttered in the latest round of closures announced by the company on Tuesday.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. in Fitchburg loaned $150,000 to Adams Farm and Slaughterhouse in Athol to help run the company and purchase equipment.

Greater Worcester gasoline prices dropped two cents per gallon on Wednesday from a week ago, following a late January bounce.

Sam’s Auto Body, Inc. in Worcester has closed up shop and will lease its space to a national glass company.

The building once home to The Owl Shop retail store at 414-416 Main St. in Worcester was purchased by Markopoulos Development of Worcester on Friday.

The Chandler Street location of Bushel ‘N Peck, a longtime sandwich shop in Worcester, was sold to the owner of a Charlton restaurant on Friday. The remaining three Bushel ‘N Peck locations will be unaffected.

Hopes were high in January 2020 when the Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness opened in Worcester. Two months later, COVID struck, and those plans went out the window.

In the wake of a scandal, Worcester’s largest brewer needed someone to show it how to be a great company. Kimberly Golinski answered the call.

The landscape for women’s business leadership at the highest level in Central Mass. has taken a hit, but for women professionals in the region, it is yet another motivator to empower one another in traditional and non-traditional ways.