A new mixed-use commercial center of 13 buildings with retail and restaurant components could be on the way to the growing Charleston suburb of Johns Island.
South Carolina Electric & Gas is closing most of its remaining customer service offices around the state, including three in the Charleston area.
The makers of the Big Mac are making a big investment in South Carolina.
Joseph Harold Sokol, longtime owner of the former Morris Sokol Furniture Co. and a leader in the Jewish community, died Friday after a short battle with cancer. He was 86.
Monkee's will welcome customers at 10 a.m. at 1421 Shucker Circle, Suite 1114, in Oyster Park off Ben Sawyer Boulevard.
After a century in downtown Charleston, a prominent retailer is setting up a suburban outpost.
Mothers, fathers, even whole families grabbed a cart and formed a queue stretching to the edge of the parking area before the 8 a.m. opening Wednesday.
A worker tacks up a business hours sign at the entrance. Another swabs a final coat of paint on a pillar. Inside, others hoist pallets to aisles being stacked with food and other items.
Eleven Lowcountry animal-welfare groups are cutting ties with a Summerville pet store because the new owner is selling puppies from commercial breeders.
Online shopping will soon get more expensive in South Carolina, as the state's tax-collection agency requires more out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes.
Publix wants shoppers to know it is not going to the dogs.
Kathleen Reardon likes to hold off until South Carolina's tax-free weekend or just before bells ring to shop for back-to-school supplies for her four children.
When an anchor pulls out because of a relocation, poor sales or bankruptcy, a shopping center's nearby merchants are left to fend for themselves. Some make it. Others don't.
A new breakfast-and-lunch spot will open Tuesday on James Island.
Supermarket chain Bi-Lo and discount retailer Big Lots mark the makeovers of five stores in the Charleston area this week with celebrations and giveaways.
Cavernous store took only about 8 months to build.
Viola the bookmobile has rambled the greater Charleston area for the past three years, offering books for sale at farmers' markets, breweries and anywhere else she was welcomed.
The challenge is "providing employers with a workforce that meets their needs and pulling in more potential workers," said Cheryl Stanton, head of the SC Department of Employment and Workforce.
The wait is nearly over for West Ashley residents looking to shop at their own Whole Foods Market.
A new national sub sandwich chain is entering the Charleston market.
Sears was once the place "Where America shops," as its one-time ad campaign touted.
A new donut shop is now serving on the outskirts of Summerville.
A North Carolina-based fitness chain will relocate three gyms in the Charleston area by year's end.
Three years ago this month, Whole Foods Market announced during a quarterly earnings report the upscale grocer planned to open a second supermarket in Greater Charleston.
NEW YORK — Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, the coffee chain announced Monday, becoming the largest food and beverage company to do so as cal…
The Orangeburg fast-food stop is back in business after its previous operator ran into some legal trouble.
Costco's second Charleston-area store is nearing completion and could welcome its first customers by late summer in Mount Pleasant. The opening date has not been set.
A developer is looking to build a new grocery-anchored shopping center at a key corner in Berkeley County across from Cane Bay Plantation, lured in part by the thousands of new rooftops coming…
A restaurant chain new to the Charleston area is setting up shop between Goose Creek and Summerville.
Some big-box retail space is about to become vacant in North Charleston.
The vacant supermarket property is on a half-block parcel at Meeting, Spring and Columbus streets.
South Carolina could pocket a new stream of revenue after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared a path for states to collect sales tax from online retailers, but e-commerce isn’t expected to produce …
A third new shopping center is in the works for booming Mount Pleasant.
Online retail juggernaut Amazon is flexing its muscle in the brick-and-mortar grocery business, a year after acquiring upscale chain Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion.
Living in Atlanta after attending college in Virginia, Sean Holmes dabbled in personal training after serving on the baseball team at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Corporate bankruptcies are normally complicated and time-consuming.
Baker Motor Co. has added a famed Italian luxury nameplate to its West Ashley car lineup, giving it 14 brands of high-end automobiles.
WASHINGTON — U.S. retail sales rose by the most in six months in May, a sign that confident consumers are leading a strong economic rebound after a slow start to the year.
A Charleston-based merchant that got its start in a mall kiosk 16 years ago will open its 19th store in the Southeast this weekend. Three others are on the way over the next few months.
The Food Marketing Institute projects online grocery sales will soar to $100 billion by 2025, capturing 20 percent of the total grocery retail market.
It's really, really hard to open a Chick-fil-A franchise, even without the pull of a government agency.
The new Publix-anchored shopping center coming to the Cainhoy area of Charleston will break ground in September.
NEW YORK — That Starbucks habit just got a little more expensive.
Two new women's apparel shops are opening in the Charleston region while another will turn out the lights.
A Charleston-based, independent Piggly Wiggly grocery store owner is adding two more of the iconic supermarkets to his portfolio.
A Charleston-based toy retailer will become the nation's first specialty store to host a Mattel store within a store.
A developing new shopping center in Mount Pleasant is quickly adding new tenants.
A once-prominent fixture of West Ashley's grocery scene is disappearing.
BOSTON — The bankrupt 171-year-old candy maker known for its chalky Necco Wafers and those little inscribed hearts that are everywhere on Valentine's Day got a sweet message from a rival Wedne…
NEW YORK — J.C. Penney CEO Marvin Ellison, a former Home Depot executive, is leaving the department store chain after less than four years to become the top executive at Lowe's.