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Local
Economic Stimulus
When you purchase at locally owned businesses rather than
nationally owned, more money is kept in the community because
locally-owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses,
service providers and farms.
Purchasing local helps grow other businesses as well as the local
tax base.
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Non
Profits Receive
Greater Support
Local business owners donate more to local charities than non-local
owners.
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Unique
Businesses Create Character & Prosperity
The unique character of your local community is defined in large
part by the business that reside there, and that plays a big factor in
your overall satisfaction with where you live and the value of you home
and property.
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Environmental
Impact Is Reduced
Small local business usually set up shop in the town/village center,
providing a centralized variety that is much friendlier to a
community’s walk score than out of town shopping malls. This generally
means contributing less to sprawl, congestion, habitat loss and
pollution.
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Most
New Jobs Are Provided By Local Businesses
Small local businesses are the largest employers nationally. Plus the
more jobs you have in your local community the less people are going to
have to commute which means more time and less traffic and pollution.
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Customer
Service
Is Better
Local businesses often hire people with more specific product expertise
for better customer service. You are also going to see these people
around town and they are less likely to blow you off or be rude
becauses they have to face you day after day.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity,
and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and
into the middle class.
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Local
Business Owners Invest In Community
Local businesses are owned by people who live in this community,
are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community’s
welfare and future.
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Public
Benefits Far Outweigh Public Costs
Local businesses require comparatively little infrastructure and
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Competition
And
Diversity Leads To
More Consumer Choices
A marketplace of thousands of small businesses is the best way to
ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
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You
Matter More
We talk a lot about exerting influence with your purchasing choices, or
“voting with your wallet.” It’s a fact that businesses respond to their
customers but your values and desires are much more influential to your
local community business than the large big box stores. To read more
about going local check out Ecolocalizer, a great site that provides
news, ideas and inspiration to “Think globally, act locally.”
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