Retail leakage occurs when members of a community spend money outside that community or when money spent inside that community is transferred outside the community. For example, crossing a border to buy goods forgoes the same purchase that could have been made inside the community. Many chain stores have high leakages rates due to the transferring of sales revenue to a corporate headquarters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leakage
We were looking to reduce that retail leakage with the hope that more money would stay in the county and more jobs would be created locally." ...
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http://www.granburyedc.com/files/Granbury_RLA.pdf
http://www.wickenburg-az.com/?p=721

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Note added at 23 hrs (2007-08-19 13:36:21 GMT)
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sorry, forgot to send you equivalent in French for comparison
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