Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Chic 2 Chic, a teen, young adult and women’s consignment shop is moving to Foxborough.
Foxborough center will soon have a new teen, young adult and women’s consignment shop; Chic 2 Chic, currently located in Mansfield, has outgrown their present facility and will be moving to 34 School Street, Foxborough. On Christmas Eve, the doors to the Mansfield location will close and will re-open in Foxborough Jan. 1, 2012. Patch recently visited the Mansfield location and spoke to owner, Janelle Palomba. "We are excited to bring Chic 2 Chic to the Foxborough Community. You won't believe you are shopping resale," she said. Their inventory will be expanding to include: designer woman’s clothing size 00-24; prom, cocktail, and pageant dresses; designer fashion jewelry; designer girls clothing size infant-16; holiday, communion, and …
A long journey always ends at home, or in this case, the Yarn Shoppe.
Sandra Torman bought the Yarn Shoppe almost two decades ago from the previous owner. Since then, she has endured fire, landlords and leases to keep her passion and business going. "It started out as a department store type thing," she said. Now she runs the shop out of her and her husband's house on Rumford Avenue. Back when previous owner owned the shop in the 1970s, it was downtown on North Main Street, where an apartment complex is now. "In 1978 the building burned to the ground," she said. "When she reopened it, it was just yarn. Before then it was a yarn and gift shop." Torman bought the business back in 1993 when the previous owner was going to shut the whole business down. When she bought the shop, it was located where Liberty Tax …
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Owner Tom Reilly started the Mansfield Deli over 23 years ago.
When Tom Reilly first purchased the property on Pratt Street over two decades ago, he originally bought it as a real estate investment, and originally did not know what it was going to be, let alone the Mansfield Deli. There was already a beer and wine store in the building when he bought it, but Reilly knew that he'd have to offer something else if he was going to be successful. "It was an accident, really," he said. "There was a small little store there already, but with the big liquor store (Dub's) across the street, I knew that to get any growth [at the property] I'd have to do something different, so I decided to do sandwiches." Reilly had owned a pub before, but the establishment only offered a small selection of items like …
jen
11:41 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
DO NOT GO HERE THEY'LL JIP YOU, my expensive dress among others went 'missing' the owner was unprofessional, rude and had her subordinate employee handle the situation and tell me its not her responsiblity, and of course theres not, because consignment laws are in the fine lines of the law and get away with things. This woman is getting tax credit as a non-profit business, and ironically she's … more ›