CAMBRIDGE -- The lure of a bargain drew thousands of shoppers to Lechmere stores yesterday as the venerable 84-year-old chain began its going-out-of-business sale. Big, orange signs around the stores ...

Ever since Montgomery Ward & Co. was taken private in a leveraged buyout in 1988, the financial community has wondered about the company and when it again would be publicly traded. The interest ...

Lechmere, which closed its doors in 1997, was a retail chain with 24 locations throughout New England and New York. It began in 1913 when Abraham “Pop” Cohen opened a harness shop in Cambridge, ...

BOSTON -- First Fretter disappeared from the Massachusetts landscape. Then Nobody Beats the Wiz pulled out. Now it's Lechmere. The venerable consumer electronics and appliances chain that's been ...