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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are going back to one of their favorite pastimes: store shopping. With more people getting vaccinated and dropping their face masks, retailers from Walmart to Macy's are seeing an eager return to their stores after more than a year of their customers migrating online during the pandemic. Marcia Williams, who [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Ford expects 40 percent of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to what it's spending to develop them. The automaker said in a presentation for investors Wednesday that it will add about $8 billion to its EV development spending from this year to 2025. That [...]
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic more than a year ago and its accompanying state-mandated health orders meant scary times for small business owners, but the iconic Book Loft independent bookstore in German Village not only has survived the pandemic, it is most likely in a stronger financial position as a result of it. “We’ve [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and the federal government announced an agreement Tuesday to open up areas off the state's central and northern coasts to the first commercial wind energy farms on the Pacific Coast. The pact that would float hundreds of turbines off the coast of Morro Bay and Humboldt Bay was touted as [...]
NEW YORK — Some small businesses forced to turn to online lenders for pandemic relief are making those niche players a bigger part of their financial game plan, and are even considering dumping their traditional banks altogether. Loans from online lenders saved thousands of small business owners who were unable to get COVID-19 relief loans [...]
Maybe you're cringing at the thought of going back to an office. The seed of a business idea floats around in your head between work videoconference calls, after the kids are asleep or while you tend your pandemic garden. Or perhaps you were laid off during the pandemic and forced to work for yourself, and [...]
The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts announced completion of a $900,000 renovation of the historic Ohio Theatre’s loge, mezzanine and balcony. Funded by an allocation from the state of Ohio capital budget — which must be used for the repair, reconstruction, or construction of physical property — and private donations, all the upper levels received [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — An abrupt relaxation of mask policies has left workers at some retail and grocery stores reeling as they try to sort out what the new environment means for their own safety and relationship with customers. Kroger, the country's largest grocery chain, became one of the latest to announce that, starting Thursday, [...]
Broken furniture. Flashlights with leaking batteries. Disfigured Barbie dolls. Across the country, thrift stores have been flooded by household items, the offerings of people who have been homebound for months and are eager to clear out some of their possessions. Problem is, too many such items could most accurately be described as trash. Many of [...]
PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — On the outside, the electric version of Ford's F-150 pickup looks much like its wildly popular gas-powered version. Yet the resemblance is deceiving. With its new battery-powered truck, Ford is making a costly bet that buyers will embrace a vehicle that would help transform how the world drives. Branded the [...]