Gas prices keep rural shoppers local, help stores


	Gas prices keep rural shoppers local, help stores

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7-14-2008 1:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64bbe804-4700-4a0f-b8d5-3dc09334486f/DA30933D-11BF-45F9-BE49-EF7B58014236/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://irjci.blogspot.com/2008/07/gas-prices-keep-rural-shoppers-local.html" href="http://irjci.blogspot.com/2008/07/gas-prices-keep-rural-shoppers-local.html" style="font-size: 11px;">irjci.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://irjci.blogspot.com/2008/07/gas-prices-keep-rural-shoppers-local.html">Rural residents, who often travel great distances to shop, are staying closer to home and thus helping local stores, Anne <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">D'Innocenzio</SPAN> and Kate <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Brumback</SPAN> report for the <SPAN>Associated Press</SPAN>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://irjci.blogspot.com/2008/07/gas-prices-keep-rural-shoppers-local.html">"While it may not reverse the decades-long decline of small-town shopping, it could lead national mall developers and merchants to rethink where to build and challenge a basic tenet of retailing: Build, and shoppers will come from miles away."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://irjci.blogspot.com/2008/07/gas-prices-keep-rural-shoppers-local.html">The surge in shoppers has increased traffic in <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Thomasville</SPAN>, Ala., which is 100 miles from Mobile or Montgomery, which is home to the nearest malls.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://irjci.blogspot.com/2008/07/gas-prices-keep-rural-shoppers-local.html">Tax revenues are up 5 percent in <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Thomasville</SPAN> for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, and <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Brewton</SPAN>, Ala., 80 miles southeast of <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Thomasville</SPAN>, population approximately 5,000, reports an increase in sales tax revenue of 6 percent in recent months.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA30933D-11BF-45F9-BE49-EF7B58014236/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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