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A new law aimed at helping save money for shoppers across Alabama takes a step forward. Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation into law back in June that cuts the statewide 4% grocery tax in half. The legislation will reduce the tax to 3% on Sept. 1, 2023, and aims to reduce to 2% on Sept. 1, 2024.

Discount grocer Aldi says it's acquiring 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarkets in the Southern U.S. Under a proposed merger agreement, Aldi will acquire all outstanding shares of Jacksonville, Florida-based Southeastern Grocers Inc., the parent company of Winn-Dixie and Harveys.

So, what did you buy during the 4th of July holiday? It might have been a vacation or stuff for the backyard barbecue. The latest U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report confirms Americans are spending less on durable goods like cars and more on services like air travel and hotels. This, even while some grocery prices continue to be stubbornly high. So, what gives? APR goes takes us all the way back to Mardi Gras in the Mobile to explain the psychology behind spending money

Legislation to reduce Alabama’s sales tax on food will reduce the state’s 4% tax on groceries to 3% on Sept. 1. The tax will then drop to 2% on Sept. 1, 2024, but only if tax collections to the Education Trust Fund rise at least 3.5% to offset the loss.

The legislation will reduce the tax on groceries in Alabama to 3% on Sept. 1, 2023, and aims to reduce to 2% on Sept. 1, 2024.

The Alabama Senate voted thirty one to zero to cut the State’s sales tax on groceries from 4% down to 2%. The measure now goes to Governor Kay Ivey after the Alabama House agreed to a change by the Senate.

Alabama lawmakers are poised to remove half of the state's sales tax on food, a move that some legislators and advocacy groups had sought for decades but that gained bipartisan traction this year in the face of soaring food prices.

Every member of the Alabama Senate on Thursday backed legislation to cut the state sales tax on groceries by half, as food bill relief emerges as a bipartisan issue for lawmakers in the face of rising prices.

In the face of soaring grocery prices, some Alabama lawmakers are pushing to remove the state sales tax on groceries. Alabama is one of only three states that tax groceries at the same rate as other purchases.

Sub zero wind chills over the Christmas holidays may hit Alabama grocery shoppers into the fall of this year.