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Chamber of Commerce to hear how internet sales affect local merchants

"MAKE IT MONDAY" FORUM

Internet Sales: A Growing Threat to Anchorage Merchants

WHO: Anchorage Chamber of Commerce

WHAT: "Make it Monday" forum

Is it time for Congress to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, allowing Alaska to impose a sales tax on goods bought through the Internet?

Longtime Anchorage business owners, along with local business leaders, will discuss the growing risks to the local economy from outside online merchants.

This panel will include Lori Atrops from Habitat Housewares, Jon Bittner of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, and Chris Schutte from the Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Ltd., who will discuss the flight of dollars online and how it impacts the economy.

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WHEN: July 22, 2013

Noon to 1 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m.)

WHERE: Dena'ina Center, 2nd floor

Anchorage Chamber press release

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