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WHAT’S IN STORE: Rachel Grady, an Ocean State Job Lot floor associate, stocks the shelves at the discount chain’s Johnston store. The company says its holiday hiring started in October this year.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Holiday hiring headache: ’Tis the season of uncertainty in search for...

Cover Story 12/19/2025

Boutique owner Karen Beebe spent weeks trying to hire just one extra person ahead of this year’s holiday shopping season. For 19 years, Beebe’s shop,...

FLYING COLORS:  Elaine Felag opened Feminine Fancies in 1982 and gave herself five years to work. Forty-three years later, the women’s boutique is still going strong.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue

Business Women 08/01/2025

There’s no obvious connection between customers at a women’s boutique needing help with a chunky necklace and customers at an appliance store needing help...

RETAIL BOUTIQUES: Natalie Swift, left, and Dakota Whitworth are the co-founders of Harper & Tucker, a business that operates retail boutiques: one on Bellevue Avenue in Newport and another in the Wayland Square neighborhood of Providence.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Harper & Tucker clothing stands out

Entrepreneurship 08/23/2019

Dakota Whitworth and Natalie Swift launched a boutique in Newport in 2017 that had what every woman wants in her clothing – something unique...

ANTIQUE FIREHOUSE: Christopher Bicho, owner of six boutique hotel properties in Newport, including the Town & Tide Inn, stands in a renovated, antique firehouse that he rents out as an Airbnb site.  / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Boutique hotels go mainstream

Cover Story 06/14/2019

Early on a chilly Wednesday morning just before Memorial Day weekend, Christopher Bicho walks into the Town & Tide Inn in Newport. An aroma...

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