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Payless bankruptcy will leave eight Central Mass. stores empty

Discount shoe chain Payless ShoeSource's bankruptcy filing on Monday will bring the closure of eight Central Massachusetts locations.

Caroline’s Cannabis bucks the big marijuana industry trend

Caroline's Cannabis s the first woman-owned small business and the first general applicant to be awarded a final state license to sell marijuana products.

Through a group text spanning six years, five entrepreneurs have created their own support network

Five Worcester entrepreneurs who loosely knew of each other began to coalesce in 2013 thanks to a group text.

Cultivate, three others to negotiate with Worcester for retail cannabis approvals

Worcester will begin negotiations for a host community agreement with four more retail cannabis stores, bringing the total number of retail stores to enter that stage to 13.
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Sudbury chocolatier teams with brewer Trillium

Sudbury chocolate maker Goodnow Farms Chocolate has joined with popular craft brewer Trillium Brewing to make a chocolate stout and a special chocolate bar.

Natick Mall Apple store reopening Saturday

A renovated and expanded Apple store will reopen Saturday in the Natick Mall after a nine-month closure.

Former Worcester shoe factory to be rehabilitated for U-Haul storage facility

A vacant 225,000-square-foot building and former manufacturing facility of the Melville Shoe Corp. is proposed to be repurposed as a U-Haul storage and retail facility in Worcester.

CCC chief: alcohol, marijuana regulation not the same

The state's chief marijuana regulator said Wednesday it is simply not practical to try to apply the framework for alcoholic beverage regulation to the cannabis industry
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Temescal Wellness to open Hudson pot shop Wednesday

Temescal Wellness will open its second recreational cannabis retail location in Hudson on Wednesday after more than a month of delays.

Staples to acquire Tampa printer supplier

Framingham office supply retailer Staples is set to acquire a Florida document imaging technology dealer.
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