
Numerous well-documented studies support the many benefits to our communities and to each of us when we choose to shop local and at independently owned businesses. It is not always possible to purchase what we need locally so I merely ask you to consider “Local FIRST!”
My top reasons to Think Local - Buy Local - Be Local
Buy Local and Support yourself: Studies, many of them, support the fact that when you buy from a local independent owned business, rather than a nationally owned big chain, significantly more of your Dollars are spent to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms -- continuing to strengthen the local economic base of the local community.(Click here to read summaries of a many of economic impact studies; these studies are showing that locally-owned businesses generate an enormous economic impact to the community and to our tax base.)
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