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PublishedDecember 1, 2019
If that was a retail apocalypse, then where are the refugees?
As the so-called retail apocalypse has shellacked a certain kind of mall retailer, the people who were hit hardest might not have been retail workers at all.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2019
Mainers check out local merchants on Small Business Saturday
The 10th annual shopping event is billed as an alternative to the national retail-focused Black Friday.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2019
Maine retailers plug into online connections to boost their holiday sales
Many Maine companies are looking to the web to augment in-store sales even more than in recent years.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Malls are dying. Thriving ones are spending millions to reinvent themselves.
Malls that didn't evolve fast enough stumbled into a devastating cycle of dwindling traffic, lower sales and disappearing storefronts.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2019
Sale of Olympia Sports means 8 Maine stores will close after liquidation sales
They are among 76 stores across the country that will close in the aftermath of the retailer's sale to a private equity firm. Sixty-two people are expected to be laid off.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2019
Auburn Olympia Sports to stay open despite sale and planned store closings
The regional sports chain was bought by JackRabbit, a retailer backed by a California private investment firm, on Tuesday.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2019
Calico Patch in Farmington closing its doors
The downtown fixture was founded in 1982 as a labor of love among three friends.
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PublishedAugust 4, 2019
Declining sales challenge Maine outlet towns
Sales in Kittery and Freeport have tumbled nearly 20 percent in the last five years.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2019
Working: Launching a secondhand clothing store in downtown Lewiston
The couple behind Lions is already turning heads with five mannequins with ever-changing outfits in the windows.
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PublishedMay 28, 2019
Jordan’s Furniture to take former Filene’s space at Maine Mall
This will be the Massachusetts'-based company's seventh store in New England.
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