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Presentations
Executive Overview of FMI Trends Research (Leslie G. Sarasin, FMI)
Panel Discussion on Marketplace Fairness (Andy Harig, FMI; Rob Ikard, Tennessee Grocers & Convenient Store Association; Ellie Taylor, Alabama Grocers Association)
No one Cares about Your Profit Margins: How to Talk to the Public about Labor Cost Challenges (Michael Saltsman, EPI)
(See below for additional resources from EPI on sick leave and scheduling)
Overview of the Cornell Minimum Wage Study
Service Animals Presentation (Kathleen Wolfe, Liz Savage, DOJ); DOJ Service Animal FAQ
Beverage Tax Overview (Gene Rackley, Coca Cola; Kevin Keane, American Beverage Association)
Environmental / Sustainability Slide (Lee Anderson, General Mills; Paul Boykas, PepsiCo.)
Plant-Based Milk Labeling (Andy Ellen, North Carolina Retail Merchants Association; Jennifer Gardner, Retail Business Services, LLC)
FMI Family Meals Month (Tom Cosgrove, FMI; Dave Davis, Utah Food Industry Association; Amy Drumm, Michigan Retailers Association)
SNAP 2018 Update (Andrea Gold, USDA FNS)
Retail Theft
- Pew Study and article on raising state felony thresholds, includes state-by-state threshold levels
- Retail Theft in Maryland (Cailey Locklair Tolle, Maryland Retailers Association)
Loperamide Abuse (Please contact Robbie McLuckie with Consumer Healthcare Products Association to further discuss this issue and if you hear of any legislation in your state and or locality – rmluckie@chpa.org)
- Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. on Loperamide, et al: https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm594443.htm
- March 8, 2018 Baltimore Sun article and backgrounder on Loperamide:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0309-imodium-regulation-20180307-story.html
- Oklahoma bill to restrict loperamide sales (H.B. 3067)
"Dark Stores": Good article on “Dark Stores” and how the media has spun it up as retail loopholes: https://www.bna.com/dark-store-theory-n73014462929/ (hat tip, Andrew Martin, Meijer)
Alcohol: Michigan Third Party Facilitator Bill (S.B. 1088)
Additional Resources from EPI:
Sick Leave
- 2016 study on Connecticut's experience with a statewide paid sick leave mandate. https://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Paid-Sick-Leave-Study-4.pdf
- Earlier CT sick leave study based on a survey of employers: https://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2013_EPI_PaidSickLeaveInConnv4.pdf
- Study examining paid sick leave and workplace absenteeism: http://www.yelowitz.com/Ahn_Yelowitz_2016_03_01_full.pdf
- Paper looking at flawed claims in sick leave proponents' arguments: https://www.freedomfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Effect-of-Mandatory-Paid-Sick-Leave-Policies-Reviewing-the-Evidence.pdf
- Additional commentary from 2016: https://www.ocregister.com/2016/07/24/learning-from-experience-on-paid-sick-leave/
Restrictive Scheduling
- Study looking at the empirical impacts of SF's scheduling law: https://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/EPI_WeighingPriorities-32.pdf
- EPI paper showing how labor groups basically wrote the law for the SF Council: https://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BigLaborSanFran.pdf
- Two EPI commentaries from the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal: