IndiePet held its first official meeting this week, rallying industry participants around the common goal of strengthening the independent pet channel’s position in the market.
Bloomington sets sunset on all tobacco licenses Bloomington decides to phase out all tobacco licenses beginning June 2022. April 28, 2021 8:05pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The city of Bloomington, already a leader on tobacco regulation in Minnesota, is looking to phase out the sale of tobacco products within city limits altogether.
The City Council voted Monday to end the sale of flavored tobacco products beginning in January 2022, while also setting a sunset on all tobacco licenses beginning in June 2022. At that time, when a store with a tobacco license closes, that license will expire and will not be replaced.
Acting Public Health Administrator Nick Kelley said the sunset would eliminate the presence of tobacco in the city and the risk of tobacco use among youth. He said only two cities in California have passed similar laws on tobacco licenses.
registers were ringing loudly on this year s small business saturday. the national federation of independent business reports customers spent close to $5.7 billion shopping local this past post thanks giving saturday. that s a testament to how the brand of small business saturday now in its fourth year has taken hold with consumers. susan sobbit is the president of american express open which created and champions the concept of small business saturday and the shop small movement. great to see you. thanks for having me. so this clearly hits a nerve with people. it s grown so much in the past four years, why do you think it resonates so much? well, we started small business saturday when we were just coming out of the depths of the recession. and our customers were telling us, we need more traffic. and now that really has taken hold. it really hit a nerve. consumers everywhere really value their neighborhood