Why Local?

Why Shop Local?

Why shop local? Because you’re local! There are plenty of reasons to shop local, figures and graphs to show the benefits; studies and economic theories. Though, the good sense in shopping local is simpler than that.

Local money stays local. When you shop at a big corporation, your dollar leaves the community. When you shop at a local farmer’s market, you make a fair trade with the farmer who grew the food! He or she might even live down the street from you. That money gets spent at home and the cycle continues. Small, local business accounts for a large share of new jobs; jobs that tend to be more stable and long-lasting; where the company tends to care about the workers.

Local businesses tend to shop local. Not only does this strengthen the local economy, keeping more money local, but it cuts down on pollution. Much of what we use every day is shipped in. This makes everything more expensive when gas prices go up, on the one hand, and it pollutes the environment, on the other. Why waste gas, when we can make what we need right where we live?

Local businesses tend to compete by offering high quality goods and customer services. This means that the person who helps you at the store tends to be more knowledgeable and interested in helping you, the customer. Local business creates choice and diversity, rather than a few goliath companies offering their few choices.

Local businesses tend to give much more to the community, because it is their community. Local businesses care much more about their community, because it is their home. Local entrepreneurship also spurs innovation and benefits our community.

More than anything else, shopping local simply makes sense, because you are local.