$19 million deal promises to keep most of 12 local stores

Exercise is one of the top preventative actions one can take to decrease chances of developing breast cancer. Commonwealth Sports Club (1079 Commonwealth Ave.) couldn’t think of a better way to get involved than to hold our own Zumba and Spinathon to raise money for breast cancer research.
Instructors are donating their time to [...]

(ARA) — You’ve made your holiday list and checked it twice, but what happens when the salesperson helping you is naughty, not nice? Crowded stores, long lines, low inventory and cranky shoppers rushing to find that perfect holiday gift can often lead to a “perfect storm” of bad service.
That’s why many retailers are ensuring [...]

Accelerators could get stuck open

More like Jerry Springer…

They just drank a whole lot more back then.

John S. Barry, an executive largely responsible for the surge in popularity of WD-40, the lubricant so multipurpose it has at least 2,000 uses, died July 3 after battling pulmonary fibrosis, the NY Times reports. He was 84.

You may never want to buy another consumer product again.

The Internet is a great business tool. It allows retailers of all shapes and sizes — from Target to Grandma Betty who sells her homemade jams — to sell to the entire (Internet accessible) world. While Grandma and her jellies will likely be ok, a Supreme Court decision could threaten retailers who sell other manufacturers’ [...]

A former Pfizer district sales manager was found guilty of obstruction of justice Monday, the FBI said in a statement.
Thomas Farina, 42, of Fairport, N.Y., faces 20 years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines after he allegedly made a Pfizer sales representative delete evidence that promoted a company drug for off-label usage not approved [...]

Picture yourself walking down the street on your way to work. As you are walking, you suddenly see an empty Starbucks cup in the gutter. The site of a dirty cup may not be pleasant, but the thought of hot, rich Starbucks coffee to jump start your morning is [...]

Gamer Doc promises a different kind of video game shopping experience, with three local locations set to open this year.

The results of a 2008 Northeastern University study of small business owners.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is planning to buy, well, that other pharmaceutical giant Wyeth for a reported $68 billion, the guardian reports.

“The Hershey Company does not purchase peanut butter, peanuts or peanut products from Peanut Corporation of America.”

Rite Aid Corporation and nine of its subsidiaries in eight states have agreed to pay $5 million in civil penalties to settle allegations of violations of the Controlled Substances Act, the Department of Justice announced today.
According to the DEA, an investigation of 53 stores starting in 2004 revealed that pharmacists knowingly filled prescriptions for controlled [...]

Many adults find it difficult to balance work and raising a family, but Maisie Knowles says that managing her own company has actually allowed her more time to devote to being a mom.
The 26 year-old Colorado native co-founded the company FreeShipping.org with her husband, Luke, in December 2007. The company is the web’s premiere destination for [...]

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has issued a challenge to businesses: reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent over the next three years.  And a prominent group of Massachusetts businesses said they will accept his challenge.
The Governor’s Clean Energy Challenge, developed by the New England Clean Energy Council and the Massachusetts High Technology Council in [...]

Last week, Blast News reported that  some of Obama’s early advisers may prove disappointing for many who voted for him based on his plans for change.
Indeed, it appears the criticism may be starting to accumulate. Dean Baker, one of the few economists who predicted the housing bubble, wrote the following for The UK Guardian.
Those [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice released the following:
Three leading electronics manufacturers – LG Display Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp. and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. –have agreed to plead guilty and pay a total of $585 million in criminal fines for their roles in conspiracies to fix prices in the sale of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, [...]

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