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Who Benefited from Microsoft's Bing Cashback?

What taxes have been raised on small businesses?

Who Benefited from Microsoft's Bing Cashback?

For retailers it was about sales and promoting their brand, partly on Microsoft's dime. Clearly, if small retailer's were excluded, they have a right to be cranky.

Retailers Leading the Way? Not Really.

I believe your thesis is correct, but the math is off somehow. A 6% increase in gas sales plus an 11% increase in food sales and flat merchandise sales can't add up to a 13% increase in SSS.

Actually, gasoline sales must have jumped by way more than 6%. The gasoline sales accounted for almost half of the stores sales increase. While BJs doesn't provide the info, gasoline sales had to have been up 25-30% or more in dollars.