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The Power of Retailing
Florida retailers provide more than $25 billion
in wages annually, provide one out of every five jobs, and collect and
remit over $19 billion in sales and retail-related taxes for Florida's
government. In fact, more than three out of four of Florida's budget
dollars come from retail-related activities.
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Retailing Generates Jobs
While the governmental, economic development,
and educational institutions of Florida concentrate on bringing high
tech, high education, high wage jobs to Florida, retailers of all sizes
across the state continue to generate jobs and wages. Local
entrepreneurs daily create retail businesses, jobs, training, and wages
with little or no help from the institutions that claim to care about
Florida's future economic health. Florida's merchants constantly face a
daunting barrage of regulations and disincentives from government and
others that seem designed to cause failure rather than success.
Retailing is Florida's forgotten job generator. It is virtually ignored
as the incubator for new business, business expansion, job training,
career training, etc.
According to the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security's,
"Florida Industry and Occupational Employment Projections 1994-2005,"
trade (wholesale and retail) will become the second fastest-growing
major industry division and gain the second largest number of new jobs
behind services. Nearly one quarter of all new jobs created through 2005
will be in trade as the industry is spurred on by population and income
growth. Four of the six top occupations gaining the most new jobs in
this period will be cashier, salesperson (retail), waiter/waitress, and
First Line Supervisor, sales, all of which are retail
related.
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