Shopping local means your dollars stay in
your community
Why shop at a locally owned business first? Because more of the money spent at local businesses is reinvested in your
community. This helps other local businesses, which creates greater diversity and helps the community maintain its unique
appeal. Shopping local is environmentally friendly, too: it creates less traffic and pollution.
Community Well-Being Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers,
linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
Local Decision-Making Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live
in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
Keeping Dollars
in the Local Economy Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue
back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.
Job and Wages Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
A 10 percent shift in market share to independent businesses from chain stores -- would result in 1,600 new jobs.
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.
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.
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.
Competition A marketplace of tens of thousands of small
businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
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.
For every $100 spent in local area stores, $68 goes back into the community. For about every $100 dollars spent in a chain
store all but $14 dollars flows out of the state destined for far off corporate headquarters and various suppliers.
Your best deal is local. Stretch your dollar or make your dollar go further like Chicago or New York, (out of state),
the choice is yours. If you choose to buy from the local merchants you stretch your dollar all around Cape Ann by recycling
your money back into the local economy. If you choose to buy from large chain big box stores (Sears, Lowe's, Home Depot, Best
Buy, and the internet) you send your money far out of state to corporate headquarters to better their stocks and bonuses.
The choice is clear, your best deal is from your local merchants that employ, bank, insure, buy food, gas, auto repair, support
schools churches, fundraisers and pay taxes to the city. The money you spend locally will help you and your local economy.
At Doyon's we match the big box store sale prices, beat them with service and recycle your money back to the local economy.
You can choose to stretch your dollar around Cape Ann or you can make your dollar go further and send it far away, out of
state. Your best deal is on Cape Ann with your local merchants that make Cape Ann a better place to live. -Gary Doyon
- http://www.doyonsappliance.com/
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