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Nashville mayor mulls grocery sales tax cut as a potential offset for incoming transit tax

Cynthia Abrams

November 15, 2024

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For months, local groups have encouraged Metro to offset the burden of a higher sales tax by eliminating the grocery sales tax.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, grocery stores, sales tax, tax relief, Transit tax

A Nashville neighborhood says goodbye to its ‘wonderful, old, crazy’ Piggly Wiggly

Juliana Kim

April 14, 2022

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A local Piggy Wiggly is closing in West Nashville, the latest victim of a rapidly gentrifying city. What makes people so loyal to the pig?

Filed Under: Business, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: food access, gentrification, grocery stores, Nashville, piggly wiggly, west end

Liquor Stores Oppose Referendum to Allow Wine In Food Retailers

Mack Linebaugh

January 31, 2013

Tennessee lawmakers pushing to get wine on grocery store shelves say they would be willing to compromise with liquor stores, who currently can’t sell anything but alcohol.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: grocery stores, Senator Ketron, Wine and Alcohol

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