The new furniture store at The Maine Mall in South Portland is expected to open in late spring.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Minimum wage increase means overtime pay for more Maine workers
The rules taking effect Wednesday will raise the threshold – from $33,000 to $36,000 a year – at which salaried employees must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
A friendly reminder from the FBI: Your smart TV could give hackers a way in
Many smart TVs are equipped with cameras and microphones that allow TV makers to track what you’re up to and relay it to advertising partners.
Posted inBusiness, Perspective
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
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.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
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.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
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.
Posted inBusiness, Franklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Calico Patch in Farmington closing its doors
The downtown fixture was founded in 1982 as a labor of love among three friends.