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ABA Membership Counts Grow Again: “The rise in BIPOC stores is a big change for us”

June 16, 2022
By Michael Cader

The ABA releases their latest membership through the AP, per tradition. (The data is usually announced at the organization’s annual meeting — which was postponed this year from May to mid-July.) CEO Allison Hill said the organization has 2,010 members now, operating 2,524 locations, well up from last year’s counts of 1,700 members and 2,100 locations. Hill “attributes some of the rise to owners who delayed renewing their memberships early in 2021, reflecting uncertainty about the pandemic’s impact.” They also tallied “well over 100” new stores that opened within the last year, “dozens of them owned by people from a wider […]

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