Why Shop Locally?
Shopping locally is one of the best ways to build a stronger, more prosperous community. There are many reasons to support local, independent businesses (Locally owned at least 40% … We know many local businesses have gained support sources… we will support them and maybe they will be back to 100%) in YOUR COMMUNITY , including:
Remember … ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION
Benefits
1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
Your neighborhood is unlike any other place in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain local diversity and distinctive culture.
2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
3. Local Decision Making
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.7.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
Businesses in your communities require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls. Your Local stores pay a much larger part of every dollar spent to cover the costs of Schools , Law Enforcement , Parks & Recreation Facilities, Fire Departments, Street Lights, Road Construction and maintenance, Sewers & Water, Boy & Girl Scouts, and much more . Local Businesses are the fountain of prosperity for every Community.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local business owners help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable community centers of Commerce-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution. <> Remember … ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION
9. Competition
Our nation is a marketplace of hundreds of thousands of small businesses. The diversity is much like small incubators of new ideas and is the best way to ensure innovation and affordable prices over the long-term. When acquisition centers fully blossom the MEGA stores will have a hard time to compete with your local businesses.
10. Product Diversity and Quality Local knowledge bases.
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices. This also means that a Small Business person with great interest in genuine knowledge of what they are offering, how to use it properly and how to advise what best serves your needs.
Please take this encouragement of thought to heart and just think about it . . Thank youWhy Shop Locally?
Shopping locally is one of the best ways to build a stronger, more prosperous community. There are many reasons to support local, independent businesses (Locally owned at least 40% … We know many local businesses have gained support sources… we will support them and maybe they will be back to 100%) in YOUR COMMUNITY , including:
Remember … ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION
Benefits
1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
Your neighborhood is unlike any other place in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain local diversity and distinctive culture.
2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
3. Local Decision Making
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.7.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
Businesses in your communities require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls. Your Local stores pay a much larger part of every dollar spent to cover the costs of Schools , Law Enforcement , Parks & Recreation Facilities, Fire Departments, Street Lights, Road Construction and maintenance, Sewers & Water, Boy & Girl Scouts, and much more . Local Businesses are the fountain of prosperity for every Community.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local business owners help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable community centers of Commerce-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution. <> Remember … ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION
9. Competition
Our nation is a marketplace of hundreds of thousands of small businesses. The diversity is much like small incubators of new ideas and is the best way to ensure innovation and affordable prices over the long-term. When acquisition centers fully blossom the MEGA stores will have a hard time to compete with your local businesses.
10. Product Diversity and Quality Local knowledge bases.
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices. This also means that a Small Business person with great interest in genuine knowledge of what they are offering, how to use it properly and how to advise what best serves your needs.
Please take this encouragement of thought to heart and just think about it . . Thank youWhy Shop Locally?
Shopping locally is one of the best ways to build a stronger, more prosperous community. There are many reasons to support local, independent businesses (Locally owned at least 40% … We know many local businesses have gained support sources… we will support them and maybe they will be back to 100%) in YOUR COMMUNITY , including:
Remember … ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION
Benefits
1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
Your neighborhood is unlike any other place in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain local diversity and distinctive culture.
2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
3. Local Decision Making
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.7.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
Businesses in your communities require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls. Your Local stores pay a much larger part of every dollar spent to cover the costs of Schools , Law Enforcement , Parks & Recreation Facilities, Fire Departments, Street Lights, Road Construction and maintenance, Sewers & Water, Boy & Girl Scouts, and much more . Local Businesses are the fountain of prosperity for every Community.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local business owners help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable community centers of Commerce-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution. <> Remember … ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION
9. Competition
Our nation is a marketplace of hundreds of thousands of small businesses. The diversity is much like small incubators of new ideas and is the best way to ensure innovation and affordable prices over the long-term. When acquisition centers fully blossom the MEGA stores will have a hard time to compete with your local businesses.
10. Product Diversity and Quality Local knowledge bases.
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices. This also means that a Small Business person with great interest in genuine knowledge of what they are offering, how to use it properly and how to advise what best serves your needs.
Please take this encouragement of thought to heart and just think about it . . Thank you