Recent content from John Ewoldt
Minnesota company's product trick to scraping ice from your driveway
His effective sidewalk device is environmental alternative to ice melters.
Edina-based Evereve is opening shops, even as other retailers close stores
Evereve is expanding its Edina flagship store and will open at least six new locations this year.
Rural grocers in Minnesota feel the pinch amid stiff competition
Dollar stores, big-box retailers bring stiff competition, but buy-local trend giving mom-and-pop store owners optimism.
Cub Foods store off Lake Street, destroyed by rioting, reopens
Another closed Cub, on Broadway, will fully reopen in April with a new name and community center.
Hy-Vee adding two full-service Twin Cities stores this year
The former Rainbow store owned by UNFI in Maplewood will become a Hy-Vee.
Buy local movement saved many small Minnesota retailers
Small retailers, learning from 2020, hope increased support endures.
Norton Rockler, who ignited passion for woodworking hobbyists, dies at 98
He spent about 25 years laying the foundation for the business he founded in 1954, now known as Rockler Woodworking and Hardware.
Hy-Vee, other Twin Cities supermarkets add incentives to keep new e-commerce customers
Consulting firm Mercatus predicts that online purchases will double by 2025.
Bed Bath & Beyond closing Coon Rapids store
More than 40 of its stores will close their doors by mid to late February.
Minneapolis North Loop hair stylist decides to take step back, close salon
Instead, he is renting a chair at another salon to give more balance to his life.