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MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD.

​At the South Dakota Retailers Association, our purpose is to advocate, inform and provide services for our member businesses. We're an active and highly-respected statewide trade organization that represents the interests of 4,000 South Dakota businesses. From member benefits and news to retail trends and training, we are here to inform our members. We're proud to be a voice for retail in South Dakota!
OUR MISSION
To unify, protect, educate and lead the retail community and strive to enhance the business climate in South Dakota to enable retailers to better serve consumers.

MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS BENEFITS

The South Dakota Retailers Association fosters the retail, hospitality, trades, online, and grocery industries' success and profitability in our state. By collectively investing in education, governmental affairs, and information services, we offer members numerous benefits and money-saving services!
​Members are served by exceptional Retailers Association lobbying and government relations staff.
​We work diligently to promote the retail industry on both state and national levels. Our team has an outstanding track record of enacting legislation that is beneficial to the business community and blocking laws and regulations that would be over-restrictive and burdensome. Updates ​are provided weekly during the legislative session, so our members don't miss a thing!
Providing information has been an essential part of the association’s mission since 1897.
​We provide and support education through training, seminars, scholarships, and ServSafe food service programs. We also publish multiple publications throughout the year, keeping our members up-to-date on business issues, trends, laws, and regulations. ​​

Help Desk 
The Retailers Association office is here to help. Our institutional knowledge can assist in answering common business questions. If we don’t have the answer, we’ll direct you to people who do. Please feel free to contact our office at info@sdra.org.  
Money-saving services help businesses in today’s competitive retail marketplace.
​Through group buying power, we’re able to provide big savings for our members. With the strength of 4,000 members, we have a strong influence when negotiating rates for key business services, meaning greater savings and better services for you!​

A few of our top services include:
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Health, Vision, & Dental Insurance
  • Employment Law Assistance
Robert S. Vessey, South Dakota's 7th Governor, was among the founding merchants of the South Dakota Retailers Association in 1897. His statue is part of the South Dakota Trail of Governors and is located in front of the Retailers Association office in Pierre.

Why join us? Ask our members!

advocacy

All the legislative action that goes on – it is hard for a business owner to stay on top of all that. So for our membership to manage what goes on in Pierre and for the Retailers Association to have their finger on the issues, is priceless!

- Travis Anderberg
Rexall Drug | Miller, SD

information

“During a time of so much uncertainty, SDRA kept us connected and informed with what was going on in South Dakota and across the country. With ever-changing guidelines and restrictions, it was nice to have a trusted source compiling and distributing the information businesses needed.”

- Eric Sinclair
Montgomery’s | Statewide

services

"The program that SDRA provides with Jackson Lewis have been invaluable to Black Hills Bagels. My husband and I have used him every year since the service has been provided. We’ve used him for everything from helping us write a simple sentence to do with an unemployment claim dispute, all the way to a whistleblower case involving federal labor attorneys - and ultimately the cases were dismissed just from his advice."
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​- Debra Jensen
​Black Hills Bagels | Rapid City, SD

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