Samantha Christmann
Business Reporter and Columnist at Buffalo News
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Samantha Christmann
When it’s time for Alison Francz to pick up her prescriptions each month, she walks the two minutes from her house to the Rite Aid on West Main Street in Gowanda. “It’s convenient,” she said. But soon, that convenience will come to an end. Rite Aid is closing its Gowanda store − and all of its stores in Western New York unless a buyer is found. When that happens, Francz said she will switch her prescriptions to the Walmart in Springville − which is 16 miles and more than a 20-minute drive away.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Samantha Christmann
The struggling Rite Aid pharmacy chain will close 39 stores in the Buffalo Niagara region and five others across Western New York if a buyer can't be found, the company told workers in a letter Monday. In all, Rite Aid plans to close 99 stores in New York after the drug store chain, which has been beset by empty shelves in its stores for months, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday for the second time in two years. The first time was in October 2023.
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buffalonews.com | Samantha Christmann
It took more than two years longer than expected, but the sale of the historic Hotel Lenhart in Bemus Point has finally closed. The sale – and the $6.5 million in renovation work planned by the new owners, William and Jill Curry – raises hope that the hotel, which has been closed for the past two summers and is not expected to open this summer, will reopen in time for the summer 2026 season.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Samantha Christmann
For 41 years, Crown-Y Recycling in Cuba collected and processed bottle and can returns under the Bottle Bill, building up relationships with customers like Wegmans and Niagara Bottling one by one. Now, it has shut its doors, and it blames Tomra, an international bottle collection conglomerate, which it accuses of colluding with distributors and using deceptive tactics to steal its customers and put it out of business. It’s reminiscent of David and Goliath.
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2 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Samantha Christmann
Firing workers who signed union cards. Telling workers the hotel would close if they organized. Unlawfully surveilling workers' social media accounts. When management at the Buffalo Hyatt Regency in Fountain Plaza caught wind of organizing activity at the hotel in June, the atmosphere at the hotel became so anti-union, and so tainted by unfair labor practices, that a free and fair election at the hotel is not likely, the National Labor Relations Board's Buffalo office said this week.
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