Retail

Three craft food companies from Massachusetts won Good Food Awards this year, and two are from MetroWest: Goodnow Farms Chocolate in Sudbury and Stormalong Cider in Sherborn.

BJ's Wholesale Club members looking to pay for large purchases such as TVs or appliances can soon turn to Citizens Bank for financing.

The national arts and crafts chain Michaels is taking the place of a former A.C. Moore store in Worcester's Lincoln Plaza.

The Herb Chambers Cos. have completed a renovation of the Herb Chambers Jaguar Land Rover Sudbury dealership featuring an expanded showroom and new technology center.

Worcester may have improbably managed to keep shoppers coming into the city in the age of new highways and suburbanization, but it didn’t last. In the past decade or two, Worcester has seemed to lose its place as the shopping heart of Worcester County.

The JCPenney department store at the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough has sold for $4.3 million as part of a corporate restructuring separating the company's retail and property components.

Employees who worked New Year's Day will be the last to get paid time-and-a-half for their efforts on the holiday if Gov. Charlie Baker signs off on a piece of the $626 million economic development bill on his desk.

It's been nearly five years since a plan for Staples to buy competitor Office Depot fell through. Now the Framingham office retailer is trying again.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on Friday the Paycheck Protection Program would re-open on Jan. 11 to new borrowers and certain previous recipients who want to apply for a second coronavirus relief loan.

Rotmans in Worcester, a longtime furniture retailer, is holding a store closing sale, but Rotmans is not going out of business, the company has clarified in an FAQ on its website.