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Leading retailers are at the heart of every community in America providing consumers with essential goods and services, stable jobs, and a legacy of volunteerism and supporting local charities. However, challenges emerge that place substantial financial burdens on retailers.
Given the common nature of these challenges across the industry, RILA pursues coordinated legislative, regulatory, and operational strategies to ensure retailers can continue to support and enhance the communities they serve.
A Deeper Look into Building Communities

Keeping Taxes Stable & Fair
RILA is urging policymakers to ensure all profitable companies pay a minimum tax before they consider raising the corporate tax rate.
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Keeping Supply Chains Open & Resilient
RILA supports infrastructure policy that invests in American growth & upgrades the nation’s aging & congested ports, highways, airports, and bridges.
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Retailers Commitments to Communities
As the trade association for America’s retail leaders, we know that retailers are so much more than a store; retailers are part of the community.
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RILA and our members support infrastructure policy that invests in American growth and upgrades the nation’s aging and congested ports, highways, airports, and bridges. We will continue to work with coalitions of likeminded organizations, including the DRIVE Safe Coalition and Americans for Modern Transportation (AMT), to advocate for modern solutions to our nation’s infrastructure challenges.
Blake Harden, Vice President, International Trade
Discover How Retail Builds Communities

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- By [Austen Jensen]
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Myth Vs. Fact: The Truth About Organized Retail Crime
- By [Lisa LaBruno, Michael Hanson]
- 11/30/2023

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- By [Ellen Jackson, Blake Harden]
- 11/28/2023
Retailers talk leading practices, trends for DEI
- By [Erin Hiatt, Moni Adeyi]
- 11/15/2023

Retailers explore evolving responsible sourcing landscape
- By [Erin Hiatt, Moni Adeyi]
- 11/15/2023
Tariffs Loom Large Over Biden, Xi Meeting
- By [Blake Harden]
- 11/15/2023

Retailers to Fed: Remain on Course for Debit Implementation
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 11/14/2023
Retailers Detail Concerns w/ OSHA Unlimited Walkaround Rule
- By [Evan Armstrong]
- 11/14/2023

Legal Chiefs from Academy Sports + Outdoors, JOANN, & The Michaels Company Join Retail Litigation Ce
- By [Melissa Murdock]
- 11/07/2023
Retailers Frustrated with Overzealous Overtime Proposed Rule
- By [Evan Armstrong]
- 11/07/2023

Combatting Retail Crime & Keeping Communities Safe
- 10/31/2023
Joint-Employer Rule Increases Risks for Retail Supply Chains
- By [Evan Armstrong]
- 10/26/2023