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As small businesses raise prices, some customers push back
In a survey of more than 1,500 businesses, ninety-seven percent of owners say inflationary pressure is the same or worse than it was three months ago.
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Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to start categorizing gun shop sales
Gun control advocates say it will help better track suspicious surges of gun sales.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Kennebec Journal, Maine, News
Plans for Augusta bagel shop in former mill building draw praise for community focus
Sand Hill Bagel Co. developers hope the shop, which is slated to open next spring in the last remaining building of the former mill, will become one with the neighborhood and city park.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
A wave of older workers was already headed into retirement. The pandemic worsened things.
The coronavirus exacerbated Maine’s labor shortage. Most of the people who have left the state’s workforce since early 2020 were early retirees.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Politics
Maine politicians scramble to show support for lobster industry
Long seen as emblematic of Maine’s hardworking ethos, lobstering holds an outsized influence on the state’s electorate and politicians from both parties want to show voters that they are on board.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
EU nations struggle to find joint approach on energy prices
Energy ministers of the EU’s 27 nations could not agree on whether and how to impose a price cap on Russian natural gas.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Kittery shipyard’s impact last year soared to $1.3 billion
Southern Maine towns and cities benefited from large number of workers and their salaries.
Posted inBusiness, News
Royce Cross stepping down as CEO of Cross Insurance, being succeeded by son
Jonathan Cross is the third generation of the Cross family to lead the 68-year-old, Bangor-based insurance provider.
Posted inBusiness
Stocks end broadly higher, breaking a 3-week losing streak
Stocks spent July and part of August gaining ground on hopes that the Fed would ease up on its interest rate hikes.