Thursday, January 24, 2013 • The Whidbey Examiner
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Top Ten Reasons to Think Local Buy Local • Be Local
1. Buy Local – support yourself: Studies show that when you buy from a local business, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms, which strengthens the economic base of our community as a whole. 2. Support community groups: Non-profit organizations receive an average 250 percent more support from smaller business owners than they do from large corporations. 3. Keep our community unique: Where we shop, where we eat and have fun – all of it makes our community home. Our one-ofa-kind businesses are an integral part of the distinctive character of this place.
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7. Invest in community: Local businesses are owned by people who live in this community are care about its future. 8. Keep your sales tax local: Spending your money here on Whidbey Island means that sales-tax revenue can be used for local government programs and services that benefit your family – and the local economy. 9. Buy unique: A marketplace filled with small businesses provides product choices that fit the people who shop there.
4. Reduce environmental impact: Locally owned businesses can make more local purchases requiring less transportation and generally set up shop in town, which means they 10. Encourage local prosperity: typically reduce the risk of sprawl, congestion Entrepreneurs and skilled workers are more and pollution. likely to invest and settle in communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses 5. Create more good jobs: Small and distinctive character. local businesses are the largest employer nationally. In our community, they provide a significant number of jobs. 6. Get better service: Local business owners care about providing good service to their neighbors because they depend on them for survival.
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