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Sales by Merchandise Category, Little Canada & Ramsey County, 2016 <br />Merchandise Category <br />Taxable <br />Sales <br />($millions) <br />Number of <br />Firms <br />Taxable <br />Sales <br />($millions) <br />Number of <br />Firms Sales Firms <br />$5.52 5 $274.43 146 2.0% 3.4% <br />$39.01 6 $136.90 124 28.5% 4.8% <br />NA NA $310.42 128 NA NA <br />NA NA $275.74 98 NA NA <br />NA NA $442.08 375 NA NA <br />NA NA $87.72 214 NA NA <br />NA NA $83.18 135 NA NA <br />$0.26 4 $124.64 338 0.2% 1.2% <br />$12.86 9 $131.83 284 9.8% 3.2% <br />NA NA $360.00 74 NA NA <br />$14.94 30 $135.88 859 11.0% 3.5% <br />$4.37 11 $55.29 501 7.9% 2.2% <br />NA NA $624.43 151 NA NA <br />NA NA $143.32 54 NA NA <br />$16.84 27 $993.50 1175 1.7% 2.3% <br />$6.51 20 $122.43 486 5.3% 4.1% <br />Personal Service, Laundry $6.00 14 $141.05 708 4.3% 2.0% <br />$117.13 199 $5,362.42 10,203 2.2% 2.0%Total Sales <br />Amusement & Recreation <br />Accommodations <br />Eating & Drinking Places <br />Repair, Maintenance <br />Leisure Goods <br />General Merchandise <br />Miscellaneous Retail <br />Non-Store Retailers <br />Food, Groceries <br />Health, Personal Stores <br />Gas/Convenience Stores <br />Clothing <br />Vehicles & Parts <br />Furniture Stores <br />Electronics <br />Building Materials <br />Little Canada & Ramsey County Comparison, 2016 <br />It is important to review the retail performance for the whole county and not just the city in isolation. For <br />example, it is common for county seat towns to have above-average retail performance, while the county <br />overall has a leakage of sales. This is usually because the county seat city doesn't have the critical mass of <br />retail to attract the purchases of everyone in the county. By analyzing county data, city business people can <br />develop strategies to recapture some of the sales being lost to other cities. For counties that have a local <br />option sales tax, the analysis of county sales is extremely important, since lost sales are lost tax dollars. A <br />thorough analysis of county sales can help county officials develop more meaningful economic development <br />plans aimed at recapturing the lost sales. <br />City's Share of <br />County Total <br />Ramsey CountyLittle Canada <br />The table below shows retail sales and <br />number of firms by merchandise category <br />for Little Canada and Ramsey County in <br />2016. Little Canada accounted for 2 <br />percent of the county's firms and 2 percent <br />of the county's sales. <br />2% <br />98% <br />Little Canada Rest of Ramsey County <br />Share of County Sales <br />20