Links To Important
Legislative Issues:

       *  Heath Care Reform    

         *  Interchange Fees 

         *  Food Safety 

         *  Organized Retail Crime
  
         *  Country of Origin Labeling 

         *  Global Climate Change
   
       *  2008 Issues wrap up 

Retail Industry Associations

The following is a list of federal and state retail associations that we work with to provide information on important legislative issues that face us in the industry. 

We work cooperatively with these organizations by communicating our concerns and recommendations to our elected officials through our contacts in these organizations to help pass good legislation which will benefit all of us in the retail industry and in our lives at home.

National Associations

• Food Marketing Institute 
• National Association of Chain Drug Stores 
• National Grocers Association

Retail West

• Boise Area Chamber of Commerce
• Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry (IACI)
• Idaho Retailers Association
• Montana Retail Association
• Northwest Grocers Assn (OR and WA)
• Utah Food Industry Association
• North Dakota Retailers Association
• Retail Association of Nevada
• California Grocers Association
• California Retailers Association

Retail Midwest

• Illinois Retail Merchants
• Indiana Retail Council
• Minnesota Grocers Association
• MN Business Partnership
• Eden Pairie Chamber
• Dorsey Government Relations 

Retail East

• New Jersey Food Council 
• Maryland Retailers Association 
• Delaware Food Industry Council 
• Pennsylvania Food Merchants Assn
• New Hampshire Grocers Association 
• Rhode Island - Advocacy Solutions
• Maine Grocers Assn
• Vermont Grocers' Association
• Connecticut Retail Merchants Association