Erin McCarthy

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You may have been noticing more commercials, billboards, and digital ads for your favorite Jersey Shore towns. Maybe your eyes were drawn to the Ocean City billboard on the Walt Whitman Bridge or to the Atlantic City bus-enclosure ads during the Eagles Super Bowl parade. Tourism folks in the Wildwoods and Atlantic City have rolled out multimillion-dollar ad campaigns in recent months.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy

Gov. Josh Shapiro is streamlining Pennsylvania’s consumer-complaint process in the hopes of filling gaps left by a shuttered federal watchdog. “Despite the fact that Washington is walking away from its responsibility, my administration will continue to stand up against the scammers and for fellow Pennsylvanians,” Shapiro said Thursday at a news conference in Harrisburg.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy

Big Lots plans to soon reopen 132 stores as part of what its new owners are calling a “revitalization strategy.”The strategy involves resurrecting 13 stores in Pennsylvania, but none in the Philadelphia region. After filing for bankruptcy this fall, and seeing a potential sale fall through in December, the discount retailer announced that it would be closing all of its stores, including a dozen in the Philadelphia region.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy

South Jersey business owner Robert Berman types the same words into his phone’s search bar every morning when he wakes up and every night before he goes to bed: “China U.S. tariff update.”It’s been part of his daily routine since President Donald Trump started increasing tariffs on many Chinese imports. Among those imports are the costumes, hats, and props the Berman family has sold at Rasta Imposta/Imposta Costumes for more than three decades.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy

A beachfront home in Sea Isle City recently sold for a record $6.43 million, according to the listing agent and Zillow. The 4,400-square foot home off 76th Street was previously owned by Lancaster-area business owner Daryl Heller, whose ATM company, Paramount Management, collapsed in February, losing Heller and his friends millions. The sale was approved by a New Jersey judge earlier this month as part of his Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, according to court documents.