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MRA’s Burke Sage of Rockford earns certification as credit card processing expert

Posted on March 12, 2018

LANSING – Burke Sage, Michigan Retailers Association’s Business Development Manager, has earned the national designation of Certified Payments Professional for his expertise in credit card processing.

The certification from the Electronic Transactions Association,

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.