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Opinion: NAFTA withdrawal would hurt retailers and customers

Posted on March 5, 2018

By Larry Lloyd

As the sixth and penultimate round of NAFTA negotiations wrapped up recently in Montreal, business and industry groups across the U.S. and North America are focused on the future of the 25-year-old free trade deal.

Chain stores find compelling reasons to build small

Posted on February 28, 2018

By Rick Haglund

Major discount retailers that long profited by erecting large-format stores in the suburbs are going small.

Meijer, Target and others are zeroing in on underserved urban markets and college towns with smaller-format stores that are a fraction the size of their mammoth supercenters.

Michigan Retailers honors lawmakers MacGregor, VerHeulen for work on food tax bill

Posted on February 28, 2018

This year, Michigan Retailers Association chose two outstanding friends of retail to receive MRA’s Legislator of the Year awards: Representative Rob VerHeulen (R-Walker) and Senator Peter MacGregor (R-Rockford). Both legislators sponsored bills that became a new law preventing local governments from taxing food or beverages (Public Act 135 of 2018).