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Other than a splash of signature green on its exterior signage, there are no traces of Publix Super Markets Inc.'s brand or name anywhere within its new GreenWise Market.

Instead, GreenWise Market is a chic, understated place with white subway tile and local art. The meat department is “Cuts,” and the “Finds” aisle is home to beer, wine, spiked seltzer and massive gouda wheels.

The Lakeland-based grocer debuted GreenWise Market, a new banner for the company, in Tallahassee on Wednesday. The store…

The company provides services to cannabis and coffee companies.

Dallas-based HomeVestors, the company behind those “We Buy Ugly Houses” ads, was the third fastest-growing franchise by sales in 2017, according to the newly released Franchise Times Top 200+, which ranks the largest franchises in the U.S. by global systemwide sales.

HomeVestors saw sales increase by 28.8 percent from the prior year. Franchise Times reports the company has 990 units across the U.S., all of which are franchised. See the top 10 fastest-growing U.S. franchises by sales in the slideshow…

Colorado's a place where you can find a lot of craft beverages — craft beer, craft wineries, craft distilleries — but you couldn't find a craft sake brewery, until Sept. 1.

That's because state law didn't allow it. Colorado Sake Co. Owner Billy Stuart decided to change that.

“They said, 'You're making beer, you're selling wine. Wineries can't sell beer,'” Stuart said. “I just called my local senator and she was like, '”I'll help you.' (Gov. John) Hickenlooper signed it in May and it went into…

The Minnesota Wild will open its season Thursday night versus the Colorado Avalanche, but those who can't make the trek out to Pepsi Center in Denver can take a much shorter trip to a Twin Cities' bar to watch the game with a crowd of fans.

Visit Saint Paul, WCCO-TV and Yelp Inc. all have lists online of the best places to watch Wild games in the Twin Cities.

These five bars were on multiple lists:

Located along Grand Avenue in St. Paul, Billy's on Grand offers different drink specials each…

Happy Thursday morning, Columbus.

Let's talk about education.

I had a social studies teacher at Upper Arlington High School who dressed up like a Klansman and spewed venom in his classroom for an hour to teach us a lesson about tolerance.

He carried a long cardboard tube and walked through the rows of desks, picking out students to ridicule. He called us horrible names and smacked us over the head to demonstrate what hate feels like.

I was singled out as the only Jew in the class. The only black…

A look at the birth of The Arcade

Cafe Express, a fast-casual chain co-founded by Houston’s chef Robert Del Grande in 1984, has closed longtime locations in Houston and Dallas and its only one in Austin.

In Houston, the company closed its Briargrove location at Woodway and Voss, according to CultureMap. The Dallas location that closed was in Mockingbird Station, where the restaurant had operated for nearly 20 years, per CultureMap. In August, Cafe Express closed another longtime DFW location in Southlake, the Fort Worth Star Telegram…

Jerrod Johnson, one of Surly Brewing's most senior brewers, has switched beers.

The Growler reports that Johnson, the co-head brewer at Minneapolis-based Surly, has joined Fair State Brewing Cooperative as director of brewing operations. Fair State co-founder Niko Tonks will stay head brewer there, with Johnson managing operations at the brewery's St. Paul production facility.

“It puts more people in the right places, to make the right decisions, to spur further growth and inventiveness not only…

Wilson is looking forward to when he can start working a more normal week and enjoy the work-life balance he values.