MONTGOMERY/BIRMINGHAM – The Alabama Retail Association in cooperation with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of Business will honor 13 retail businesses with stores in 48 Alabama cities as Retailers of the Year during the 2014 Alabama Retail…
MONTGOMERY – The back-to-school buying season, the second busiest shopping time of the year behind the winter holiday season, will boost sales in Alabama. Shoppers are certain to fill Alabama stores the first weekend in August when many of their…
Congratulations to the Alabama Retail PAC candidates who won their party’s nominations in Tuesday’s runoffs. Please make plans to support them in November. Thanks for making the retail vote count. STATEWIDE SECRETARY OF STATE PSC PLACE NO. 2 …
On July 7, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange issued an opinion interpreting Act 2013-283, Alabama’s broad gun law, to Claude McCoy, the attorney for the Chambers County Commission. The primary focus of the opinion was whether counties could mandate an…
Retailers Want a Resolution Before the Next Holiday Shopping Season WASHINGTON, D.C. – Small business owners from Alabama and throughout the country are in Washington, D.C., to meet with their senators and members of Congress to present their case on…
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Department of Public Safety and the Alabama Retail Association, in their continuing partnership to limit driver license fraud, today presented the Examiner of the Year Award to Janice “Becky” Townsend (right) and Driver License Specialist of the…
MONTGOMERY – Alabama RetailPAC, the Alabama Retail Association’s state political action committee, has made its first major endorsements in advance of the 2014 campaign cycle. Included are statewide judicial candidates previously endorsed in November of 2013. Alabama Retail Association PAC,…
MONTGOMERY – From Friday, Feb. 21, to Sunday, Feb. 23, Alabama shoppers will be able to purchase severe weather preparedness supplies tax free. During the three-day tax holiday, consumers can stock up on these needed supplies and save money. Recent winter…
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Retail Association has completed its slate of officers and board of directors for 2014. Their terms of office began Jan. 1. The officers for 2014 are: Chairman: George Wilder, president, The Locker Room, Montgomery and Auburn; Vice Chairman: Frederick…
Closing Online Sales Tax Loophole Could Add Billions in GDP and Thousands of Jobs in Alabama, Study Shows MONTGOMERY – Alabama’s hometown, Main Street, mom-and-pop, small retailers have one wish this holiday season: That the U.S. Congress closes the online…