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The new year will ring in plastic and paper bag fees for Colorado shoppers
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Colorado shoppers will discover big changes in the new year at groceries, convenience stores, pharmacies and other retailers. Beginning Sunday, a new state law will require shoppers to pay a 10-cent fee for every single-use plastic and paper bag they carry out of most retail outlets. The measure, approved by Colorado lawmakers last year, is…
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Polis signs bill extending small business exception from destination sourcing tax law
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Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed the first bill of the legislative session – a proposal that gives small businesses more time to comply with a major change to where their sales are taxed. The new law, House Bill 22-1027, extends the exception for small businesses, defined as those with retail sales under $100,000, from a 2019 law…
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King Soopers files temporary restraining order against picketers
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Kroger on Tuesday said a judge has granted its request for a temporary restraining order against striking King Soopers workers after the company claimed that picketers were harassing store customers and workers who crossed the picket line. Kroger, the parent company of Colorado’s King Soopers and City Market stores, filed the request in Denver District…
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Little progress made in King Soopers strike negotiations, officials say
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Both the Kroger Co. and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 continued to badmouth the other side Monday as the King Soopers strike stretched into a sixth day, but at least they were still talking at the negotiating table. About 8,400 union workers walked out of 77 metro Denver area King Soopers and City…
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King Soopers strike imminent after ‘last, best and final offer’
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With United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union representatives rejecting King Soopers/City Market’s “last, best and final offer” Tuesday, it looks as though picket lines in metro Denver stores will materialize at 5 a.m. Wednesday. More than 8,700 workers at 78 Denver metro area stores plan to walk out Wednesday morning. Colorado Springs stores…
