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Get our free LIBN e-alerts & breaking news notifications! AP Photo Downtown stores, businesses await their customers’ return By: The Associated Press May 25, 2021 Comments Off on Downtown stores, businesses await their customers’ return In many downtown areas where companies closed their offices and commuting ground to a halt, sandwich shops, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return. Teresa Ging could count on a steady stream of office workers coming to Sugar Bliss Bakery for muffins and cupcakes before COVID-19. They all b...

Downtown stores, businesses await their customers' return by Joyce M. Rosenberg, The Associated Press Posted May 17, 2021 8:09 am EDT Last Updated May 17, 2021 at 8:14 am EDT ***HOLD FOR JOYCE M. ROSENBERG STORY*** Sugar Bliss Bakery owner Teresa Ging prepares for an online order in her shop in Chicago's famed Loop, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. In many downtown areas where companies closed their offices and commuting ground to a halt, sandwich shops, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar) NEW YORK (AP) — In man...

NEW YORK — In many downtown areas where companies closed their offices and commuting ground to a halt, sandwich shops, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return. Teresa Ging could count on a steady stream of office workers coming to Sugar Bliss Bakery for muffins and cupcakes before COVID-19. They all but disappeared when the Loop, Chicago’s downtown area, became deserted amid government stay-at-home orders. In March, a local business group, the Chicago Loop Alliance, found in a survey that a year into the pandemic the number of pe...

Businesses in big city centers wait for customers to return Joyce M. Rosenberg View Comments New York — In many downtown areas where companies closed their offices and commuting ground to a halt, sandwich shops, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return. Teresa Ging could count on a steady stream of office workers coming to Sugar Bliss Bakery for muffins and cupcakes before COVID-19. They all but disappeared when the Loop, Chicago’s downtown area, became deserted amid government stay-at-home orders. In March, a local business group...

April Marijuana Sales in Oregon, Illinois Set New Highs Eric Volkman © Provided by The Motley Fool April Marijuana Sales in Oregon, Illinois Set New Highs The pandemic might be fading in the U.S., but Americans are still toking up in record numbers. Two states where recreational marijuana is permitted just published April sales numbers, and the results provided a nice contact high for the cannabis industry. In Oregon, the first state to decriminalize cannabis (before making it fully legal many years later), total weed sales topped $110.5 million in April, setting a new mont...