A warning from the President of the Massachusetts Retailers Association.
Jon Hurst warns that over the next ten years half of the four thousand businesses his group represents across the state may close up and retire.
Hurst says it may be franchises rather than stand-alone businesses that will fill soon to be empty spaces.
Hurst says the franchise model may make an awful situation better.
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