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Retail Facts

Retail Means Jobs

Alabama Counts on Retailing ...
Because Retail Works for Alabama!

  • Retailers employ 1 in 4 of all employees in the private sector in Alabama
  • Alabama has 56,691 retail establishments, slightly more than one retail business for every square mile of the state.
  • Alabama retailers employ more than 400,000 of our great state’s citizens, making retail Alabama's largest employer
  • Our state's retail sales account
    for 1.5 percent of all retail sales nationally
  • Retailers each year collect almost $2 billion in sales taxes on behalf of Alabama’s state government
  • Retail trade accounts for almost $16 million, or 11.4 percent of the state's gross domestic product, making retail the state’s third highest producing industry.

SOURCES: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, The Economic Impact of the U.S. Retail Industry, August 2011; Alabama Labor Market News, Alabama Department of Revenue, U.S. Census Bureau

To learn more about how Alabama retail means jobs,
go to www.RetailMeansJobs.com/Alabama

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