Recalls Affecting Alabama Retailers FOOD June 14, 2018 FDA investigating multistate outbreak of Salmonella Mbandaka infections likely linked to Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Cereal (Two Alabamians are among 73 people nationwide ill with this strain of salmonella. No deaths have been…
Shoals Chamber Resurrects Awards Program; Honors Local Businesses (Times Daily, June 14, 2018) When Alabama Retail or its members make the news, we’ll link the articles below. Email Melissa Warnke and Nancy Dennis when your store makes the news so we can share it! Monograms Plus…
Thank you for making the retail vote count in Tuesday’s primary. Together, retailers have made a positive difference in our state’s leadership. Make a difference once more by returning to the polls for the upcoming runoff and General Election. JULY…
Today, Alabama becomes the 50th state in the nation to require data breach notification. Alabama’s Data Breach Notification Act of 2018 requires notification to any affected individual when a business determines breached data could cause substantial harm to the consumer….
Beginning at 6 a.m. Sunday, May 27, Alabama will be under a state of emergency related to Subtropical Storm Alberto. The emergency proclamation prohibits price gouging and eases transportation restrictions for the movement of emergency supplies. The counties included are Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour,…
MONTGOMERY – Alabama RetailPAC, the Alabama Retail Association’s state political action committee, has made its first major endorsements in advance of the 2018 campaign cycle. Alabama Retail Association PAC, Alabama Retail’s federal political action committee, has made endorsements in two…
In its 2018 regular session, the Alabama Legislature again revised the state’s voluntary use tax program to further level the playing field between brick-and-mortar and online-only retailers. Stay tuned for more on April 17, when the U.S. Supreme Court delves…
Online marketplaces will either have to remit use tax or report sales made to Alabama consumers through third-party vendors under the latest revision to Alabama’s Simplified Seller Use Tax. Act No. 2018-539 by Rep. Rod Scott, D-Fairfield, and Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Daphne, takes…
More than 20 local alcohol bills became law in 2018. SUNDAY SALES Sunday sales can be permitted by resolution, ordinance, a majority vote of the governing body or referendum. These cities and counties received state legislative permission in 2018 to…
As it did in 2017, legislation to reduce business license costs specifically for pharmacists did not make it through the legislative process in 2018. That bill or broader business license reform could return in 2019. Other legislation that died in…