Sales-taxes down in Bentonville, Rogers
The downward trends match, but the cities blame two different causes.
Posted: August 25, 2009 at 5:29 a.m.
Sheila Brown of Rogers shopped at Target in Rogers on Monday.
City of Rogers officials were hoping for a limited decline in sales-tax revenue this month - nothing more than 3 percent. Reality hit twice as hard, with sales-tax revenue in August dipping 6.9 percent over 2008's totals, and the economic slowdown in retailheavy Rogers continues.
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