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With Valentine’s Day still more than a week away, there are four local restaurants with reputations for romance that are booking up quickly.
Mona Lisa, the Craftwood Inn and Briarhurst Manor in Manitou Springs, along with The Pepper Tree on the southwest side of Colorado Springs, were ranked among the 100 most romantic restaurants in the [...] [...]
Colorado Springs Buick and GMC auto dealer Mike Shaw has been named Time magazine’s 2012 Dealer of the Year.
Shaw, who also runs Chevrolet and Saab dealerships in Denver, Fountain and Castle Rock, as well as in Louisiana and Texas, is the 43rd auto dealer to win Time’s annual award.
The announcement was made Saturday during the [...] [...]
A day after the New York Giants scored their big win, Stu Miller and other die-hard fans streamed into a Times Square store Monday to scoop up championship merchandise in celebration.
“It was a great win. You have to give them credit,” the Ringoes, N.J., resident said while clutching three T-shirts and contemplating buying a Giants [...] [...]
A Colorado-based burger chain, Larkburger, will open its seventh location in the Broadmoor Towne Center.
And it’s not your parents’ fast-food joint.
Larkburger, based in Edwards, has locations in Boulder, Denver, Edwards and Fort Collins. The Springs location will be its southernmost in the state.
The burger was first featured on the menu at the Larkspur Restaurant and [...] [...]
Consumers this year are set to spoil their friends, family and loved ones on Valentine’s Day – and price is not a concern.
According to the national Retail Federation, the average person plans to spend 8.5 percent more this year on chocolates, teddy bears and flowers. The survey shows that the average person will spend $126.03 [...] [...]
Colorado car and truck dealers are encouraged after new car and light truck registrations in Colorado finished 2011 with strong sales.
A report by the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association said Monday people went on a holiday spree in December, with registrations up 25 percent over the previous year.
Dealers say 2011 registrations were up more than 15 [...] [...]
A new sandwich franchise is slated to open in University Village this March.
Which Wich Superior Sandwiches is a Texas company with locations in 22 states, including 12 in Colorado.
“Outside of Texas, we have more stores in Colorado than anywhere else,” said Which Wich communications director Hala Habal. “Our Colorado franchisees have a really strong presence [...] [...]
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened the first of four new restaurants in the Colorado Springs area today.
The restaurant chain opened in Monument and franchisee Kyle Gerstner said he plans to begin construction on another along the Powers Boulevard corridor in June.
Freddy’s opened its first store in 2002 in Wichita, Kan. The Monument restaurant is [...] [...]
A downtown sandwich shop quietly shuttered its doors some time in the last few weeks.
OPB&J, known for organic peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and soups opened in the summer of 2010.
The lunch spot was closed by the afternoon of Jan. 12 with white butcher paper covering the windows and no sign [...] [...]
by Rob Larimer Published: January 6,2012
Tags: Retail
Thieves disguised as employees steal more from retailers than do thieves disguised as shoppers.
Employee theft accounts for 44.1 percent of retail theft in North America, while customer theft — including shoplifting and organized retail crime — is responsible for 43.2 percent.
In 2011, employees pilfered about $45.3 billion, the report says.
The highest average theft rates are found [...] [...]
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