Buy Local
In the past, I have asked the question, “Who do you buy from?” Today I am asking you, “Do you buy local?” I think it is very important to buy from the local guy before the big chains. I know that everyone is watching prices these days. I do the exact same thing for some things but others I am willing to pay a little bit more so that I am buying local.
An example is this weekend we were doing lawn work and my husband and I rented a sod cutter. We had two choices very close to our house. One was a locally owned store and the other was a ‘box chain store’. We looking into the prices and decided that it was more important to use to spend a few dollars more and rent it from the locally owned store. A friend, who likes to tease me about this, came over and started to ask us where we rented it from. He then stopped in mid sentence and said, “Let me guess”, the local store.
Yesterday I was reading a publication from the Fishers Chamber of Commerc
e Fishers Business Insider. One of the articles in there was about doing just this, buying local. There were a few interesting facts listed that I thought I would share.
-For every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $45 was generated back into the local economy. For every $100 spent at a large retail chain, only $143 stays in the local economy.
-If every family in Indiana shifted $6 from their weekly budegt to purchase from Indiana based businesses, the state’s economy would be enhanced by almost $730 million.
-As a consumer, you pay 81 percent more on a product for value-added services such as packaging, transportation, and energy than you would if you bought local.
An example is this weekend we were doing lawn work and my husband and I rented a sod cutter. We had two choices very close to our house. One was a locally owned store and the other was a ‘box chain store’. We looking into the prices and decided that it was more important to use to spend a few dollars more and rent it from the locally owned store. A friend, who likes to tease me about this, came over and started to ask us where we rented it from. He then stopped in mid sentence and said, “Let me guess”, the local store.
Yesterday I was reading a publication from the Fishers Chamber of Commerc
e Fishers Business Insider. One of the articles in there was about doing just this, buying local. There were a few interesting facts listed that I thought I would share. -For every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $45 was generated back into the local economy. For every $100 spent at a large retail chain, only $143 stays in the local economy.
-If every family in Indiana shifted $6 from their weekly budegt to purchase from Indiana based businesses, the state’s economy would be enhanced by almost $730 million.
-As a consumer, you pay 81 percent more on a product for value-added services such as packaging, transportation, and energy than you would if you bought local.
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