Top Ten Reasons to Shop Local
We all know how fun it is to shop locally, but there's more to it:
1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
When you choose to
support locally owned businesses, you help maintain the diversity and distinctive flavor here in Queens.
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 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.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores in town centers require comparatively little
infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative
to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town
centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use,
habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
9. Competition
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
10. Product Diversity
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.
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