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fancier foods and, in general, treated themselves more luxuriously.
Neither the surtax nor the higher cost of goods and services deterred them to a noticeable degree.
As a result, retail business in the area was good. Local merchants accounted for gross sales of $2,555,000, bettering the previous year’s $2,224,000.
Each community is rated in the survey on the basis of the amount of retail business actually done, as compared with its estimated full capacity.
It does this through an “index of buying power,” which takes into account income, population and sales.
Rappahannock County’s index rating is .0014 indicating that it is capable of producing that percent of the nation’s retail business.
Since it accounted for less than that last year, .0008 percent, the conclusion is that some of the local purchasing potential is yet to be achieved.
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