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Retail Index: Summer weather in July helps Michigan sales

Posted on August 22, 2019

LANSING, Mich. – July was a much better month for Michigan retailers, as parents started back-to-school shopping and summer weather encouraged shoppers to hit the stores after a cold, rainy June.

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Sign up to take advantage of $5 billion class action settlement

Posted on June 25, 2019

By JOHN MAYLEBEN

As some of you already know, there is a class action lawsuit claiming that merchants paid more fees than they should have for accepting Visa and MasterCard as payment from consumers.

James Hallan: Late-Spring musings

Posted on June 9, 2019

By JAMES P. HALLAN – MRA President and CEO

ISSUES ABOUND
As the opening lyric in the old Lovin’ Spoonful tune goes, “Hot town, summer in the city” my prediction is that this is going to be a long legislative summer.

Should your credit card terminal be on a deserted data island?

Posted on March 6, 2019

By John Mayleben

Wall or no wall? That is the question.

Current politics aside, should your credit card terminal have a wall around it or not?