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Buy Local/Support Local

The importance of Buying and Supporting Local Business

When you shop local/support local that money is reinvested in our community helping the community maintain or create its unique appeal.

According to research conducted by American Express, 62% of U.S. small businesses reported that they need to see consumer spending return to pre-COVID levels by the end of 2020 in order to stay in business. Fortunately, the Small Business Recovery Research shows that three-quarters of U.S. consumers are looking for ways to Shop Small® and support their community.  Now more than ever, small businesses need our support!

Buying Local Keeps Money in Our Community

When you buy local our business community will retain and create jobs and protect and enhance property values in surrounding residential neighborhoods and promote community development.  Local independent shops invest more in our communities. Local businesses are proportionally more generous in their support of local charities, schools, and community events. Shopping locally means a financial impact on our community.

Buying Local Is Better for the Environment

Shopping local saves the environment. Local shops often stock a high percentage of local sourced goods which do not require long car and bus journeys, helping reduce our global footprint. Shopping local saves, you money. Out of town shops have done a good job of convincing us all that local businesses = expensive. If you add travel, fees to transfer larger items and your time, the overall cost is often much higher.

The energy required for transport often uses fossil fuels.  Apart from the fact that fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas are non-renewable energy sources, they also create and release a large amount of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere, which is known to be a large contributor to global warming.

Buy Local to Help Keep Our Community Unique

Buying local means our area can become a much larger tourist attraction by virtue of the character of our buildings, location, selection of unique businesses, and events held here. This means more visitors to our community and more tourist dollars being spent in our community. Also, many of our shops are unique and the service excellent!  Local shops sell a wide range of great products at affordable prices. Please consider hotel and dining experiences as a possible gift ideal also.  Many people get out of the habit of shopping locally and are then surprised by the range of products and gifts available.

Local shops value you more. Evidence from numerous surveys show people receive better customer care and service locally. These businesses survive by their reputation and repeat business which means you get a higher standard of service.

By supporting local businesses, it allows our area to be an incubator for new small businesses and entrepreneurs, the building blocks of a healthy and thriving economy. Every local retailer is one of our neighbors who has taken a risk to try to make our region a better, stronger place, boosting the economy and helping lift friends and neighbors into the middle class.

When we all look for ways to buy local, we send a message that we believe our community is worth investing in. We put our money into things we care about and we enjoy a better purchasing experience overall personally. Shopping and buying locally is a win-win for you, for small businesses, and for our community as a whole.

This shopping season is a critical mark for some of our small businesses, invest in your community, invest with businesses who are committed to our area, invest in your neighbors who own and work at our small businesses. 

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