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Show Utah's 6 Per cent Law Mears Test, Moab Area Grocers Informed Utah's controversial 6 percent per-cent law (a portion of the state's Unfair Trades Practices Prac-tices Act) is nearing trial, the just-finished legislature left grocers work to do and shoplifting is a growing problem pro-blem throughout Utah. This is the report that II. Vern Brazell, Executive Director, Utah Retail Grocers Association Asso-ciation made to grocers from Moab, Blanding, LaSal and Monticello this week at a special dinner meeting in Moab. The state legislators pass- ed 250 of 630 bills introduced, introduc-ed, he 'Informed the food-men. food-men. A number of great importance im-portance to food retailers. One, House Bill 7, allows banks to exchange names of persons whose accounts they have closed out for poor credit reasons. This should cut off the supply of checking accounts for those who make a practice of writing bad checks.. The Inventory Tax Repeal resolution, reso-lution, which must be submitted sub-mitted to the public in 1968, will give retailers an opportunity oppor-tunity to do away with a grosly unfair and discriminatory discrim-inatory tax, he said. Grocers and other merchants should look for some organizations which will attempt to solicit soli-cit funds to support the repeal re-peal attempt. "The resolu-ion resolu-ion will be presented to the public through a united effort ef-fort of all inventory-carrying businesses throughout the state," he said, and financial fi-nancial support, will be asked ask-ed for through the various associations." The new plastic plas-tic driver's license with a colored photograph will greatly aid food retailers in identification of persons purchasing tobacco and beer and in the cashing of check:i he said. Utah's law which requires a retailer to charge a minimum min-imum of 6 per cent more for an item than he pays for it, is nearing its trial to see if the law is Constitutional, he stated. The so called "6 percent" law, designed to keep larger businesses from destroying competition through below cost selling has never been tried in Utah and its outcome is vital to the well-being of the state's food industry. |