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Check your mailbox for the Holiday Alabama Retail Quarterly

The Holiday Edition of the Alabama Retail Quarterly should be arriving in your mailbox soon. If yours has yet to arrive, you can read it now online.

HolidayCoverInside This Issue:

Alabama 2015 holiday sales
to near $11 billion

Alabama Retail Comp to give back
$7.6M to participants

How Alabama Retail board member Terry Shea ended up testifying before a congressional committee about the U.S. Labor Department’s proposed overtime rule change, which could become effective in 2016.

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Overtime Rule Change Could Become Effective in 2016

Wrapsody’s Terry Shea to Congress: Overtime Proposal is ‘Not a Good Fix’

The Cohen family show that the best service and the best price can coexist.

Tax-exempt sales, use and lodging certification standarized as to Jan. 1

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Revenue Department clarifies tax-exempt sales notice

Retailers may want to review record-keeping in light of new law for tax-exempt groups

2015 Retailers of the Year employ 1,600 at 80 stores in 51 Alabama cities

Federal ruling opens door for Alabama class actions

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