October 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — From the Carlyle Club at the Greensboro Coliseum to the Carlyle Cup competition between Duke and Carolina athletics teams to the Carlyle & Co. jewelry stores across the Southeast, the Carlyle name carries considerable cachet. Yet, i...
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October 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — As the mother of a young boy, Kimberly Riek grew frustrated trying to find affordable, but quality, children's toys and clothes. Riek had an inspiration: Open a kids' consignment store that sets itself apart.
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October 17, 2009
Think about your take-out lunch, your fall sweater, your television or the framed oil painting hanging over your fireplace. Where did it come from? Who made it? How was it made? Who benefited? A lack of transparency, particularly with imported products, m...
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October 15, 2009
Wild-N-Crazy Vintage is a small shop, but it's packed with treasures for the vintage collector. The store has racks of clothing from the 1950s to the '80s. Shelves are stocked with 1960s tableware. Suitcases, hat boxes, lamps, cowboy boots, Elvis lapel pi...
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October 14, 2009
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — America's two biggest lottery games are talking about cross-selling tickets in North Carolina and other U.S. lottery jurisdictions with the potential for a national lottery, the head of a lottery association said Tuesday.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. (MCT) — The game that toy makers and toy sellers will be playing this holiday season is "Make Sure the Price is Right."
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October 11, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The economy still may be down in the dumps. But you wouldn't know that judging from all the hustle and bustle at State Street Station, a shopping village featuring specialty shops, boutiques and restaurants. Two stores have recently moved in...
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October 7, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — With even super affluent shoppers tightening their Gucci belts, luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group Inc. unveiled its Christmas Book on Tuesday with a nod to this new frugality.
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October 5, 2009
Belgian international food retailer Delhaize Group is in talks to buy shops and inventory worth $425 million from South Carolina-based Bi-Lo, a grocery chain that entered bankruptcy proceedings earlier this year.
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October 4, 2009
RANDLEMAN -- When Randy and Linda Simula mentioned to friends they were opening a new business, the response wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement. "A lot of people would say you're crazy for trying to open a business in a recession," Randy Simul...
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October 2, 2009
Customers will no longer be able to earn and redeem Greenpoints at Lowes Foods after Sunday.The supermarket chain will start a new rewards program called Fresh Rewards on Monday.
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September 30, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) — The owner of Sheraton hotels will offer thousands of guests a free night's stay in dozens of North American locations as part of a massive campaign that kicks off Wednesday to highlight the chain's $6 billion revitalization efforts.
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September 29, 2009
HICKORY — The owner of the now-closed Domino's Pizza in Conover said the notorious gross-out videos that two employees posted on YouTube cost him more than half his profits.The store closed Sept. 22.''My business was off 58 percent because of YouTub...
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September 27, 2009
SUMMERFIELD — So you want to spruce up your home this fall without spending a ton of money? Join the club. Nancy McKee is here to help.
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September 24, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Nintendo on Sunday will cut the price of its popular Wii console by $50, in a bid to broaden its appeal among potential new customers as it prepares to release the Wii Fit-Plus and New Super Mario Bros. games.
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September 23, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Hanesbrands Inc. is using a Mount Everest climbing expedition to test and showcase the company's advances in high-tech apparel.Officials for the Winston-Salem-based company plan to announce the expedition Wednesday morning at North Ca...
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NEW YORK (AP) — As lawmakers prepare to implement sweeping credit card reforms, Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are moving to overhaul overdraft fees and practices that have been criticized industrywide as excessive and harmful to...
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Anyone who's been to an auction or has tried their hand at an online auction Web site such as eBay knows that the item up for grabs always goes to the highest bidder.So it took a little time for me to wrap myself around a really different twist to the auc...
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September 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Debbie Foster is on a designer jeans treasure hunt at ReFab Exchange Boutique. "My sister found a pair of True Religion jeans here," Foster said, browsing the aisles inside the Lawndale Avenue store. "And she got them fo...
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September 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — A report due out Wednesday is expected to show that inflation remained in check last month, as the weak U.S. economy prevents retailers and manufacturers from raising prices.The report comes after the Commerce Department said Tuesd...
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September 15, 2009
HIGH POINT (MCT) -- Major furniture events in High Point and Las Vegas overlapped for the first time when the sun rose on Monday morning as premarket and the Las Vegas Furniture Market opened.Premarket, an invitation-only event for buyers and manufac...
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September 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — The News & Record has taken its downtown parking lot off the market because of problems brought on by the recession, a company executive said Monday. The newspaper put the 3.5-acre lot up for sale in May 2008, ......
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September 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — ABC stores sell just the hard stuff. No cocktail mixes or tonic water. That usually means getting back in the car and driving somewhere else, say a grocery store, to pick up your cocktail party essentials. Wouldn't it be nice if you co...
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September 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Hundreds of residents shopped for bargains during Saturday's community yard sale in downtown Greensboro.You still have time to stop by. The event ends at 2 p.m. today.It's being held in the News & Record’s parking lot at the c...
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September 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Michael Frontani was a kid, he’d skip school the day John Lennon or Paul McCartney released a new record. He’d go to a store in Dayton, Ohio, and gaze at the album’s cover and devour its liner notes all the way ho...
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